Stories tagged fiction

e-Love

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You are given with a collage of 4-5 pictures and they all are colligated to each other in some or the other way. One has to ascertain that mutuality. You have to use all the conjectures and surmises made by other participants in order to crack the picture

Mon Oncle

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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....

Snark

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His Danger Pistol was out of bullets, his Bag of Tricks was empty, and he wasted his last can of Antimatter back at the lab. All he had was his Charm and his wits. Charm wouldn't last forever, and he'd always come up a little short in the wits department.

Playa Conchal

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There is a small resort village on the northwest Pacific shoreline of Costa Rica, within the province of Guanacaste, near a town called Tamarindo. It is arguably the most beautiful of the Esmeralda beaches. Below Playa Hermosa, even further down than Playa Flamingo,…

Atonement Circle

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When Roger opened the closet door, several guns fell forward at his feet. Most of them were rifles, weapons his stepfather had collected over three wars. Wooden bolt-action carbines, with worn leather shoulder straps, of this caliber and of that caliber. Both…

Black Stag

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Around and down the curved slope of slippery embankment walked the young black male deer, lifting only one leg from each side, front-to-back then back-to-front, leaning to-and-aft, diagonally digging the heels of his alternate hooves into the quick caramel mud. …

Decent Men

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“Now let's just start again, real slowly, and from the very beginning,” the taller darker investigator leaned across the desk and spoke directly to the young male bank teller, face-to-face, “you say that she was attractive then — this,…

Swimming Chickens

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A slight copper-haired girl in a green dress matching her eyes busily stuffed clothes into the two pastel yellow machines at the back of the Laundromat. She looked too clean and fresh to be in a place like this, but it didn't seem to bother her and she w

Yucatán Shakedown

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Peter had recently cracked his tooth chewing ice. It was the top left molar, not the far back one, but the one just in front of that. His dental insurance covered most of the extraction but none of the implant. An artificial tooth was considered cosmetic, and they…

Blue Canada

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“Got a light?” He startled me. I hadn't seen him sitting there in the dark. “Get off my truck.” I closed my fist around the keys and stuffed them back into my pocket. I'd never seen this bum before. I remember thinking how small he…

Me and Mike Meet God (Excerpt)

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You ever have one of them epiphanies? You know, when something simple causes ya to glimpse reality through your buzz? Yeah, I got that. Happened just a while ago to me.

Where Does Love Come?

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He was rummaging through his giant pile of clothing on the floor, looking for something to wear to sleep. When he couldn't quite tell what was dirty and what was clean, he knew it was time for laundry. Just as he was going to…

7th Avenue Local

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The harsh lights of the 7th Ave. Local revealed dark circles that had remained hidden during Vivian’s performance.

Upper East

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As the 5 train gained momentum away from Fulton Street, Helen took her seat with the alertness and suspicion of someone who had spent the day negotiating prices with dirty fishmongers.

Fulton Flapper

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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.