Stories tagged flash-fiction

"Round, young vi-i-rgin..."

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“Juxtaposition.”

Worker Reprimanded For Flatulence

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An employee at the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore office has been formally reprimanded for "conduct unbecoming of a federal employee," specifically for disrupting co-workers "by passing gas and releasing an unpleasant odor." According to the

So We Played Checkers

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"It's all in my head? Of course it's all in my head -- just like my ears and eyes and taste and smell are all in my head!" As usual Mom and Dad were arguing soon as Dad got home.

Time

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The sky was painfully blue that day. So bright, so cheerful that attempting to look at it, to probe its depths would cause one's eyes to tear up. There was not a cloud in sight, just miles and miles of blue as far as the eye…

and now for the news ...

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nope. no excerpt for you.

A Place for Forgetting

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"Damn this place. My throat feels like dust." Sitting side by side under a stunted and gnarled tree two men in military dungarees marked the center of a desolate expanse of sand and beating sun. "Damn this sand. Damn this sun," Darby spat to one sid

Some cockeyed law of love

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Something happened that day.

SECRET PIGS

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"Secret Pigs. Secret Pigs." Rows of washing machines hummed and thumped with their loads. Inside Doris hummed and thumped too -- down one isle and up another she was a machine that broke loose with an unbalanced load and kept right on going.

Pet Chicken Alerts Wisconsin Couple To Blaze

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A Wisconsin couple says fire clucks, not fire trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home. The couple's pet chicken woke them at about 6:15 a.m. Thursday. He says the smoke alarms didn't go off when the fire started in the attic of their attached g

Little Fly Egg

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She was her father's little "fly egg." It made her feel good the way he said it. Sweet nothings individually wrapped, such bobbles of affection fell easily from his lips, whenever she slipped briefly into his study, like there was no end. Tina was eight y

Ballad of the Giant Thermometer

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Apart from the Thermometer, Baker’s known for the meth lab at the Royal Hawaiian Motel that burst into flame on a Sunday morning June 2009, but nobody was killed.

Writer Conversation with Husband

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"What, you only like my funny stories?"

Chrysalis

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With each hospitalization she emerged as from a chrysalis in a different incarnation in a different world.

The crack

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I put my mouth to it and said hello hello hello.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Insomniac

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Lithium saved my life. Lithium almost killed me. Lithium is the treatment of choice for bipolar disorder. The “Anti-Suicide” pill. No other medication has been shown to be more effective. But the window between…