Stories tagged flash-fiction

The Signal

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I take the plastic off of the last videotape and stick it in the VCR. I make sure the channel is on 6. Still a commercial. I get my notebook, turn it to the next page and write today's date on top. I get ready. I don't really like the back and forth banter the other news…

Destroy the Evidence

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The oven door topples off of its hinges as she kicks and climbs out. She growls and quickly slaps out her still smoldering sweater shoulder. Taking a kitchen chair by the back, she swings it over her head and shatters the window. The chair breaks into splinters as she…

no regrets

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Passing over or under the ever eternal red thunder, with its white and blue lightning striking out of the giant face of thunderheads, sometimes lighting up from inside like an enormous bruise. You caressed me around the ribs (around the hips, the delta)

Look in the empty mirror ... tell me what you see

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Slow news day, spectacular photo.

and I used to sing, too, after sex

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Females exuding from the genitals, giving life meaning, shape, cleanness of line, purity of spirit. They may form man as the honey moans out its salt song, solitary, its epic shout of joy, the sweet science of the human form. Then to give back in re

aren't we all godlike?

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I remember having a beer once, and feeling like a minor god. So, here's my question. Where's my ten million dollars that I was supposed to get by now? Maybe God can't find His bifocals, and that's why my check for ten million hasn't shown up yet. Maybe a stray dog in heaven…

Coffee

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He picked up a pack of cigarettes and shook it. He flipped the lid to confirm there were none left.

An Unheeded Return

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On an over­cast and humid day in August, Jesus—with Dad’s per­mis­sion, of course—decided to make his grand return.

A Natural Consequence of Things

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Belief is a hammer, like saying the mind is a piece of iron.

the flame licking the bottom

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If the flame is licking the bottom all the time, how will you know them, the real one, I mean? Blushing, feeling acute shame as the minds circle and a million hands feel your breast, looking inward with rounded mouth. That fabulous bird under your cloth

The Ghost of a Smile

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Bridges. Best reason I can think of to invest in contact lenses, and resign myself to sticking clear discs to my eyeballs every morning. Part of me knew this day would come.

the sweet lunar springs

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Check the sweet lunar springs that we are still bathing in. The swelling in the genitals there. Check to make sure we are ripe, and in season. It’s our way of being willing, strong under the sweet icy waters, with that fertility that is derived from you

Is that concrete all around ...

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feels like driving through hell or Casper, Wyoming at about 145mph

Except for the Sea

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A veiled lady rises out of the sea then stands still, shivering for a moment. As if reaching to embrace someone, she presses forward into the darkness.

Are We The Dining Dead?

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“You gotta eat the chicken, “ he said.