Stories tagged flash-fiction

Drummer Boy

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A door slams. The vibrations rattle through the floor, up his legs and into his chest. He can hear the yells, and the tears that mar her voice. Rat-ta-tatRat-ta-tat A door slams. Eyes closed while images of a life he will never live flicker on…

The Canoeist's Luncheon. Renoir

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The artist leans back in his chair, smoking a cigarette after lunch, looking away from the table toward the right He is dressed in white, and he's practically stretched out his entire length, to relax after rowing the boat all morning. Sunlight

The Criminal Intern

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"Look, Ted, I'm on a timer. It's really hell here, you can't imagine. And I have a chance to get paroled early, if you do me a solid."

10 Easy Steps to a Better Intellectual Life

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Let’s face it, there are simply too many things too know these days.

The tenth point of possession

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Gin walks the corridors of recollection in your somewhat spleened and splintered internal dialogue. Love is a battlefield.

In the Biblical

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empty pages are filled already

The tenth point of possession being this ...

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Chance, luck, fate, the finger of an angry god.

The cheese maker's son

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A steady drone buzzed from above and crashed his ears like car horns.

77 Words About Last Night

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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.

Blip

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‘They will follow, but we have to go now’ ‘Wait , I can see something familiar...’

The Forest

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The screen is black now.

dancers: degas

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What we see is the aspiration of flesh to beauty not the fact, which may be ugly. That the light pours down on them, as they wait in the wings to go on stage. The cool and warm pastels separating on their flesh. Green and white above, warm red a

Blackout # 37-24PA

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She’s a profile, a lovely profile. She looks back, smiles.

The Forest

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The screen is black now.

Begin the Beguine

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The story will find its own way.