Stories tagged flash-fiction

Wall talks to wall

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Wall talks to wall. One has a clock, the other a window, the third a cupboard with bandages etcetera. The fourth a door that opens and closes a thousand times a day.Chair is across from chair. Occasionally the one looking for care picks the wrong one to sit in, and there is…

Drive By

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Maybe I'm just a bad mother...Across the street, I see the little girl my son punched in the face.

There's No Place Like Home

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That's gross.

Conformity

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Jerry turned to thank her but she disappeared into the mass of people, he thought to thank her later but then quickly realized that she looked like pretty much every other woman...

Marilyn, of NYC

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I remember another one night stand in NYC with a girl named Marilyn. We’d met up at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in Vermont. It was the Summer of Love, and a number of us student writers were planning a trip out to San Francisco to participate in that f

Objects and Structures of Unknown Significance

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GO BY FLYING SAUCER.

Party in Sierra Madre Canyon

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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”

The Hangman

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I could have called him the night before, but that might have given an appearance of anticipation; I was curious to see him, but not desperate.

Slanting Rain

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...falling into that breathing abyss, and she can feel her heart pounding against it. A falling and falling that’s never ending. Frightening. How hard the thump will be if ever she lands. The darkness continues to breathe all around her.

The Summer They Walked On the Moon

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That summer I fucked Kathi R. from Wheaton, as much as I could. She called me Professor Obsessor. She was short and practically without tits, but must have had the longest arms, because she could somehow reach down around my ass while I was on top and she

Dime novel dreams of childhood

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Billy Cusak disappeared on a Saturday, in August of ‘55.

Throw

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She was a dead bird the morning I found her, wings clipped in dirt and blood vanished into tiny braille maps on concrete.

Missy

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My husband is both excited and afraid of Missy...When she rubs herself against him, he can't help but respond. But when she tells him about the hot, twenty-year-old supermarket cashier...

Ice Bar

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I can’t stop looking at the burly man to my left with the blue lips and three-inch mustache. He orders his fourth whiskey. He laughs at my melancholy like it was a flat thing--a dead animal to strip of its fur. Why be melancholic when you can float on whi

Mercy Mercy Mercy

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When I was young and self-born in religion my aunts, uninterested in being washed in the Blood of Christ, called me Preacher Boy. I didn't pay them any attention. It was fine by me, I said, if they wanted to sit around and paint their toenails . . .