Stories tagged fiction

Nature of the Bones (52)

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“No shit!” “Shit! I mean no, Blow. I took a photo off the website and put it on ours.

Nature of the Bones (53)

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The flashing blue lights squirted jet fuel on his excitement. He saw the first set atop a marked unit blocking the dirt drive entrance at the highway.

Nature of the Bones (54)

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“Homer, this is one time I'd like to see the moon hide behind some clouds all night. Know what I mean?”

Nature of the Bones (55)

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So over the dry moat and past the spikes and up the side of this bowl they charge. The little punk Hamilton's the first one up, and the fight is on.

Fertile Ground

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Miriam forced herself to focus on the kitchen door and on putting one foot in front of the other. “Is everything alright?” she heard Ada ask the family. “Of course, everything is fine,” the woman said. “What could be wrong other than the impossible serv

Prawns

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The white Styrofoam box sits on the prep station. It was delivered a few hours earlier. Half awake, I don a black apron and grab a large cutting board. To keep it from slipping, I put the cutting board on a damp towel laid…

Nature of the Bones (56)

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“You're tense as a banjo on speed, little bro. You think they're gonna try something tonight?”

Nature of the Bones (57)

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He knelt when he reached the pile on the ground and saw it was a deputy he didn't recognize.

Nature of the Bones (58)

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Blow lifted his night glasses and saw that at least one of the bulldozers was grinding toward them like an Abrams tank.

Nature of the Bones (59)

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Penultimate chapter!

Nature of the Bones (60)

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Finis!

Self Portrait as a Drowned Man

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The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.

Tree voices (revised)

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Shhhhhhh

First Shot (1)

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First chapter, new novel.

First Shot (3)

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“Is Gunther...was he a bad principal?”