Stories tagged fiction

(3) Country House

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At one point he’d said: Don’t you have work to do? And she’d said: I’m doing it now.

Only losers reminisce about their show & tell days

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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t

On Writing "How An Autobot Sunk The Titanic" (April Fool's Challenge)

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I started with the idea of a time travelling Autobot but not as a time traveling vehicle, like a Delorian or the Jet Car from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

The Bear (April Fool's Day Challenge)

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Poor Daniel gets the ultimate trick played on him by nature when he encounters a bear for this April Fool's Day Challenge story.

The Lord's Army, Hosanna

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CNN shows the promo videos from HIGHA's YouTube account over and over again. Members in combat fatigues clutch rifles as they barrel through the woods, taking pot shots at tree trunks and rusty mid-Eighties Buicks as they go.

Apology + Opportunity

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What I need to secure from you now are two swears on this copy of Camp Bylaws for the Hearty and True that you won’t let my misinformed intrusion dampen your beginnings.

Name game

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I said, I took off my underwear. Which even now, seems more like a non-sequitur rather than an admission of something – responsibility?

Two More from The Recipients

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At 8:56pm, they become blueprints of movement = light + dark > fluid in a single tonality.

South of the Border

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We had a beach front room at a nice hotel in Puerta Vallarta. We spent our days playing in the sand. One day we took a trip down the coast on a catamaran. We didn't see any whales.

The Puppet Maker

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My sister Janis called me from Berlin and said to turn on the news. You could see the thick flurries of snow that were falling there and the flat feathers of peoples' breaths issuing from their mouths as they took turns swinging pick-axes, standing on top

The Darkness of White Noise

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I love your free spirit he says.

The Blues are Running

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That was how it was, each day new and yet the same, finite and never-ending.

Flash Before Your Eyes

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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha

Just Who Does Miller Think He Is?

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This new kid on the block, named Miller, showed up out of the blue one day, while we were throwing rocks and boulders down on this flimsy gray sheet of construction plywood that was covering an open trench in front of a new house on our block. One of the

In Her Wake

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A piece of her skull landed here. But it fell off. Then I couldn't find it.