Stories tagged flash-fiction

Dust

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Three Indians stood by the locked door of the save-me-Jesus mission, waiting for someone to carry them either home to Four Corners or to paradise.

Dear Ms Carnation-Noble

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In fact, I have no doubt that, owing to the colorful obscurity of your prose, you have more than a little opium in your veins.

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Even though he preferred to wear fishnet stockings under his jeans at work and was always talking about how his ex-girlfriend refused to pee on him, I kind of liked him.

Lessons

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A wrinkled man rested atop an ivory clad mattress.

The Queue

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She persisted. “How long have we been here?” A note of anger crept into his voice. “How long? How long? Why …, why ….” He swallowed hard, realized he had forgotten.

Butterfly Down! ™

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"God is perfect. We are not! Slam dunk! ‘Nuff said. "

things to know about the people parked along the road that runs though Humboldt Park: part 19

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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.

Wrestling with Genetics

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I know he's an accident waiting to happen.

Begin the Beguine

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The story will find its own way.

Sewage Tank

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One of the biggest mistakes he'd ever made was licking that light post, the one just outside the x-rated theatre on Delaney Street. He'd attended church that night at the chapel down the road, said, "The sermon set my hair afire," and he meant it, literally. I heard…

Power

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You're thinking I don't have a conscience, right? I'm asking you.

The End of the World

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I find driftwood, long, smooth logs washed up on the beach, drag them to dunes still wet from the sea...

Startled by Towels

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I woke up when the smoke alarm insisted. Either the curtains were on fire or I hadn't changed the battery.

Brokedown on I55

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"You're an asshole," you said to me. "A giant, festering orifice."

Don't ask. Don't tell. Unspoken human conversations #42

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He said nothing, held her hand, wept.