Stories tagged flash-fiction

The Sally-Anne Test

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Sally-Anne is in a graveyard. A girl about her age and height died two years before. Sally-Anne is digging up the bones. Her parents Aaron and Rebecca think she is at her piano…

things to know about the people parked along the road that runs through Humboldt Park: part 20

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I traced the vein that rose in her temple when she got angry all the way along her body until it ashed out varicosely on her smooth calf.

Loose Tooth

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—Dad? —Yea. —When your tooth fell out, did it hurt? —Hm? —When you lost your tooth. Did it hurt? The strangest thing is the dreams that come still. I get them. Frequently. Losing teeth and running my tongue over the open wound, still…

Born Out of Fog

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As if one might get lost forever along the way.

The Times

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Justice takes a cigarette break; the cemetery seems to grow overnight. One cigarette lights another.

Chairs and Mirrors

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There's a mirror in front of me and I thought it was so I could see myself, but I didn't want to see me.

Two Sides of One Half

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So what. I didn’t much care for any of that nonsense. Everyone hated someone. I hated Trabants made in East Germany.

Hair

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I have mine cut simply, no bangs.

Baby Teak

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Baby Teak can access Wikipedia by rubbing two xylophone mallets together.

Thanksgiving Giblets

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And the worst thing about it is that Lucy is the only one who doesn't know.

The Forest

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The screen is black now.

Jimmy

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Vegetables were complacent. Fruit needed deeper study.

Saints

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First thing I ever did when I arrived in New Orleans was buy a bottle of cheap bourbon from the ABC to go with the cheap room in the cheap transients' house on Josephine Street just at the edge of the Garden District. I set the bottle on the filthy table by the…

Strings Go

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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.

The House Next Door

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For years I lived without a neighbor. Trees surrounded me on all sides, but over time the trees came down and houses were built.