Stories tagged flash-fiction

the leisure to walk about sweetly

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You seemed to have that leisure to walk about sweetly when I was with you, honey-singing the reward for the intensity of emotion you lunged about in. Nothing seemed like it was going to hurt or harm anyone, even while I was going nuts between the legs.

Slices of Life: Housework, The Black Sea, Bed Post

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Another notch in her bedpost.

fragments of their lives survive

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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them

Well, I LOVE Darkness . . . But I've Chosen YOU!!!

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The elevator door opened, and Tom ("The Baffler") Frank found himself confronted by Jesu bar Joseph, who opined: "You're WORTHLESS!" and recommended: "Why dontcha PULL your PANTS down, and CUT your COCK off!"

erection standing up in eternity

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Yes, ordinary people come out of the day at day’s end, out of a park or orchard, a pleasure garden large, squeezed out of paradise, of something very large, and things torn away go shooting by and are received in the deep annals of omission. Separat

Monogamy

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cummings starts to sniff, his usual routine. He feigns aloofness while raising one wolfy leg to pee on Eliot's sneakers.

out of terrible desire

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Whatever it was I had for you came straight out of terrible desire. I thought I was wise beforehand, shrewd, knowing all, everything, but I was wise unto numbness between my legs, if you want the truth. Receiving and containing your deliciousness before

Greetings from 17-E

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Remember the glass changing room just off the pool terrace? It's been replaced by a juice bar. Seems fitting, really.

The Olivetti, the Bomb, and Why I Got My Degree in Economics

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The revolution. It found me, and I didn’t even get blown by the bomb.

Eight States Away

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Jim McDugal boarded the wrong plane.

Hector's Record Collection

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Zappa, Santana, Hendrix.

Sheer

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That's when we struggle, got it? Right there on the floor. It's not the brawl of the century, and I'm not the pilot who delivers the Enola Gay.

Secrets of Philadelphia

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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.

We Put a Smile Back on Your Face

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Her voice mail announced: “I’m coming for three days...Make sure the dog hair’s cleaned up, I have allergies.”

Cholo

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There was that time he decided to avoid the whole situation by getting off the bus early.