Stories tagged fiction

I'm SO Bored of Being Retarded

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Yeah, so it’s an easy thing. I’m bored but that don’t mean it’s not an easy thing, to be retarded. I say that as to say I’m dumb = I’m retarded. Not to say that I’m lawfully retarded or no thing, because for then I’d just go ahead and just shoot myself de

Ink Play

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Lying on a high seat in the south study, this is what I see:

Life Sized

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The first time I saw Little Man was on a bright, hot afternoon near the end of November, when the trains had just pulled into the fair grounds and the familiar smell of upturned turf and sun-basked animals returned to Sarasota.

Like Water

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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.

Teleprompts

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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.

Jumpers

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Many years later, when I saw her again on a crowded subway car approaching Times Square, I thought back to the night when we both shared a piece of cardboard on the roof of a freight train moving through Mexico.

Working with Frank

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I had been working for Perdue for several weeks, but Thanksgiving would be the first day I'd actually be working with Frank himself.

Two Little Fictions

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His work was done. For sixty years, beginning soon after his seventeenth birthday, he had listened to the gods- good, bad, somewhere in between-

Man in Chair with Book

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Sitting in the chair, by the window, reading a Penguin Classics paperback edition of selected essays of Montaigne, at page 196, he just froze, unable to move a muscle.

Tidbit

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By dawn, she is ready to hunt.

Loose Ends

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He looked peaceful.

Make-Believe

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My sister plays Jesus.

The Avenues Of Occupation And Other Short Stories

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A vanishing of something we never got to see. All we've been left with are impressions, imaginings

The Impending Fall Of Space Junk

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The world is always changing, even if it's in several eras at once.

Matar

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Gamo knows the Master doesn't make idle requests and orders the secret issue of weapons to the student priests, who now stand gathered at Kang's back. Swords, spears and shields are quietly handled and hidden from the Mantidean's view. Dr. Kang continues