Stories tagged fiction

Hunting Season

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A mundane endeavor depicted as a quest. Try it, you'll like it!

Sunk

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The weight of my heart dragged me in dangerous directions.

Fractured Memories of Hope

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May as well have lived two lives, he thinks: one before memory and one after. And how can you remember someone else's life? You can't. After forty years of living, he realizes that there's no way of knowing what his own eyes have witnessed.

Piece of Mind

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Samuel wondered if Megan could hear the brains humming, but like so many of the questions Samuel had for Megan, it was difficult to find the right moment to ask.

The Burning Gulf

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None of us ever thought this would happen.

Cold Water

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The old house smelled like copies of Life and Reader's Digest and Leica catalogs and my grandfather's nonfiction books.

That Godot Guy Again - a True-Life Story

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This is what happened today.

Cats

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My wife and I are cat people. Indeed, that's how we met. We met at a wake.

Hotel Chelsea - Intercut 9

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Whatever it is, he knows some of them would march him into a Zyklon shower if they could.

Conspiracy of Me

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There’s only one thing to say when 217 clones of yourself are walking the earth, wreaking havoc, conspiring to install a global oligarchy despite how many lives are ruined and innocents killed: I’m sorry.

God Particle

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Never could figure why it was necessary that scientists get those little two-inch golf pencils to write with.

They Would Judge His Trespasses

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They waited until the crowd was gone before making their move. Gill kept watch while Warren bypassed the lock. “You sure about this?” Gill whispered. Voices echoed down the hall of the museum.

Foodarama Saturdays

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Dan and I perfected the art of procrastination, while tornado warnings did their radio-test rrrrn-rrrrn-rrrn groan on my Sony clock set. We imagined the trailing tails of these cork-screw clouds, dusting some outlying part of our sprawling city, lifting

Adam Gallari Dreams Of Pitching No Hitters

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Baseball is a fag's game. Real men play street soccer and I'm gonna make sure my son grows up to be a real man.

Twenty Percent

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That September, he had enjoyed drinks in the company of now-dead utopians.