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Exits

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Katrina looked like a lot of girls that Daniel was embarrassed to be attracted to.The first time she knocked on his door he had been waiting for a real estate agent, sitting in the overstuffed leather chair his wife hated.

Assiduity Twenty Seven

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" . . . with twinges of dread and pangs guilt, I worry . . . "

Boy on Fire

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Like punishment, the clock above his chalkboard never moved.

Excerpt from Novel-in-Progress The Sun Eaters

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“And don’t stay too long out there; let the horse freeze if you have to. If you can’t cut him loose. Work fast, otherwise all of you will be ice cubes, horse and everything. We can use him for meat, anyhow.”

The Form Rejection

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Jackie got sexual satisfaction from form rejection letters.

Bitter Orange

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A poison bouquet of Merlot and brown floor muck bloomed in Seth’s nose. It’s one thing to sniff a freshly decanted red and another thing to shower in it.

PROMISES

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There was a bird on the windowsill, a sparrow, its silhouette backlit by a view of Uptown. She remembered many sparrows during her forced trips to Mercy Hospital...That was all over now...

Grandma

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It was a subtle change. Jeffrey's grandmother was never graceful. Her figure was like a garbage bag filled with rounded masses of leaves and the unexpected angle of the odd stick, the entire shambling affair draped in soiled and yellowed hand-knit clothing…

A Nap

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I opened my eyes and blinked at the brilliance until they adjusted. There was an echoing roar in my ears and a salt kiss on the air and my feet were half buried; I heard a shrill cry overhead and watched a shadow …

The Stairway (Short Story Excerpt)

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Leaves clouded the air and piled in great brown heaps like rotted snow on the old Maine road, disturbed for the first time in months by a lone, black SUV. It plowed its way slowly across the asphalt, the black surface cracked and hoary with years of neglect, past…

The Good Old Days

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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.

Eucalyptus

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It had all been for the children, hadn´t it?

Warning: Literary Fiction: The One-Dollar Minister

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It was Warren who introduced me to this bouncer fellow named John O’Toole. Warren met O’Toole and his wife, Angelina, through the dark prison poet Eugene Forcer. Forcer and O’Toole were the best of friends until a riff erupted between them one drunken n

Killing Mountain

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What had happened earlier that morning in town was now a blur. Yes, he’d taken down the doctor and the lawmen. The old doc had refused to give him anything.

Larry Swain's Universe

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By fiddling with the time space continuum and mixing in liberal quantities of quarks from his "Li'l Bang Dimensional Digester", Larry created an entirely new universe in his garage. This was a flagrant violation of Cosmic Law. It could not be ignored, nor