Stories tagged fiction

Blues for Trombone and Tenor Sax-Take 2

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Blue Miles blue. Blue Coltrane blue. Blue skies…smiling at me, nothing but Blue suede…

Leaping Through Flames

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I should have never gotten involved in such a huge lie. I was a poet, for God's sake, not a novelist. I wasn't used to lying.

From "The Mudd Club"

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But instead of a trick, a woman entered. She looked, Nora thought, like a giant child going to a birthday party.

A Swallow From China

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She will always be mine, my forever swallow from China. She began to undress, unclasped her bra, slipped out of her panties and slid in next to me. I made room for her, giving up the small warm space my body had created. I brushed the hair away from h

Showdown at the Okay Corral

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I hauled out my Norton Anthology and threw caution to the wind.

Star Dance

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It comes to him in the night. When he's lying there, staring at the ceiling. The shadows dance on the white paint, forming into monsters that get you when you sleep. The moon hangs low in the sky, dancing with the stars in a ballet that lost all movement

Checking Out

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Minnie looked at her co-worker's nametag. "Destiny," she said to her. That's a pretty name. It suits you. You're an attractive young lady. Is your momma pretty?" "Not like I am," Destiny said as she smoothed her shiny black hair. "I'm honest about it 'ca

Blocked - A Facebook Tale

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In the LOL playground environment of Facebook, one man's world is turned upside down when a new female friend suddenly blocks him from any further communication.From Chap.1: "I kept thinking there was something familiar about you, and now I remember."

Young Turks

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There was a whole group of us Young Turk poets who hung out at the Savoy Tivoli in North Beach. Most of them drove cabs, (whereas I was now working in a damned gas station for Angel, my publisher’s man, who got me a job there.) They would double-park thei

The Pineapple Princess

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The move into the new apartment made things worse than ever. I still couldn’t forget Pineapple. The three small rooms I’d rented overlooked a treeless street that ended at a narrow estuary choked with reeds. At the end of the block was a broken down f

The Pineapple Princess

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The move into the new apartment made things worse than ever. I still couldn’t forget Pineapple. The three small rooms I’d rented overlooked a treeless street that ended at a narrow estuary choked with reeds.

Sweet Charity

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Troy approached the podium and cleared his throat. "My wife, Wilhelmina, and I wish to thank you all for attending the dedication of the Steele Center for Childhood Cancer Research this evening. We are delighted to contribute to our community in this manner, and to continue…

BREAKING: Discovery of Higgs Boson Announced; Was Between the Cushions of the Couch the Whole Time

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His colleagues were quickly able to confirm the astonishing finding. Yet it would not be the only groundbreaking discovery that morning. Upon further exploration of the crevices of the worn-down and grody couch, researchers stumbled upon a wealth of extra

The Slingback Soldier

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I knew I shouldn't have joined up!, but they made it all look so glamorous in the posters. That mustachioed man in uniform,…. it was as if he was pointing right at me,his eye's piercin me soul….. made me feel ever so special… ‘Adventure!, Excitement!, and a…

Journey of Thade

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"I will die here." It came like a warm breeze. The first thought that entered his mind when he came to. A low groan of pain escaped. A surrendering kind of sound one makes upon seeing their world collapse in all of its red raging glory. Fear g