Stories tagged flash-fiction

In Your Dreams

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her dream life

The Burning of Deyrolle or Losing Hugh

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Deyrolle, established by the granddaughter of Jean–Babtiste Deyrolle, to house his scientific debris became a Paris fixture. A museum masquerading as a store and when casually mentioned in HG or when it was discovered that David Sedaris was an aficionado

The Last of the One-Night Stands

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"Get up on your knees."

Invisible Grime

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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.

Origami and the Dime Store Dick

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When I was five, my Dad would take me to the sawmill. I loved watching the steam engines cloud the sky with pitch. I would stare at them as long as he would let me, as long as it took to feel the soot in my hair. When I got older, he'd take me to the carnival peep…

In Your Dreams, Maybe

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Springsteen's E-Street band

Secrets / Cigarettes

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We gave our cigarettes names.

~true myth zoo spa~

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flash read. have fun *cheers*

A Million Pieces

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Today's girls all look the same. Angie isn't even sure if one leaves and a new one enters. They blend together like paper-dolls, clinging to one another, connected, braided. This morning, while one of them lies with her legs in a V, the alarm goes off

Golden State

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The first door on the right is the bedroom. Even if I try to forget; my body remembers and the strength of its yearning fairly pulls me inside. I noticed you left the door ajar. Really you should be more careful.

The Geoff Thing.

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Yeah. But why would he say that? Who are you asking? I couldn't believe it. I mean I knew he was working up to something and he hasn't been happy over at Jay's for a while but I thought that was about his dad and the…

Running Down The Drive-By Screamers

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All the wonderful Zen-like molecules had dispersed from my body and were now hiding deep in a dark corner. Rage boiled in my blood. My veins, in fact, couldn't contain the boiling blood and they exploded, making my whole face and skin turn blood red. My

Never Catch Me Alive

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We walk with our heads down, maybe 15 of us, moving under a sun that has grown to encompass everything. Everything is in hues of orange and red like a bloody eyeball on fire.

When Deer Attack

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Carla woke up from her hospital bed screaming. "Somebody please help me. Please save me. I am begging you."

X, Final Vignette, Patricia Cecilia Demarco Gromov

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No, not forgiveness. Forgiveness just seemed irrelevant.