Stories tagged flash-fiction

His Venus

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Just a year ago, Dana was fat in a fertility-fetish sort of way, a shiny round Venus flush with lust.

Feminine Rage

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The Bimmer flashes his brights like you need him to remind you of your dick move. The toll plaza for the GWB is only a mile away, but the Bimmer is riding your tail the whole way. Once you pass the toll plaza, he reappears on your right side, matching you

Last Night On Oil Street

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Tomorrow the authority smashes. Tonight we march, splash, carve letters in wet paint from room to room until steel blades bend. The letters will tilt in shadows gliding over the walls to mask our tales born of fractured wrists and the ghosts, our keepers.

Test Patterns

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Back then, TV didn’t go on forever. Back then, stations would sign off, sometimes at two a.m., sometimes at three. They would play the national anthem and show round designs like archery targets, and then static would fuzz the screen until dawn.

The Fall

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Creation, as calculated by Bishop James Ussher, was the night preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC —which means the fall, Eve's fall, the day when she stared into the eyes of the saurian and said, yes, yes, I will, might have been an autumn day.

The sky on that day

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Perhaps it was her eyes. Or the late November rain. Or perhaps the sky on that day was a particularly uncommon shade of grey. He couldn't say. But he went there anyway, forced his shoulder against the wind, felt the pull. With his head bowed forward he stood on the…

Melt

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I returned from work three days ago to find an enormous cube of ice set in the middle of my living room floor.

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Howard needed to finish this time. As his marriage slid further down the sinkhole toward divorce, it was important to him that his affair be successful.

It's Good

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It’s good to get fucked in the rain. It’s good to get fucked in the back seat of a power boat on a river in the hot summer air with the mosquitos sucking the life out of you. It’s good to get fucked with your bare back rubbing up against the rough bar

It Can Hold Us All

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Look out for rotten ice. If you fall in, pull yourself out like a seal. Take off all your clothes and get to shelter.

Land's End

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Wearing Land’s End clothes at life’s end Driving around in circles in your Codgermobile with 3 good hubcaps. Who wouldn’t want to steal that?

Travelin' Light

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Los Angeles disposed of me in little less than a year.

Dear Corporate Security (Part I)

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The scarecrow is you and the tin man is everyone who ever told you not to try any harder. There is no lion because we shot and ate him for breakfast two weeks ago with a side of watermelon and some orange juice. The only thing that you can count on is tha

Life Before Kant

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I doused back three Buds in the time it took him to detest a variety of subjects including the naivety of quantum physics and pregnant women.

Printer

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The cool taste of menthol filled his lungs, burning him from the inside. He didn't mind.