Stories tagged flash-fiction

Fall

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You fall with your eyes closed because otherwise you wouldn't dare.

What Do I Gotta Do To Get Somebody’s Attention Around Here

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Semi Lenovo

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I have a newer model computer named Semi Lenovo, who, it is rumored, used to be some sort of rock star, but now sits under the command of my fingertips. More or less. She does, I admit, sometimes seem to have a mind of her own and often runs off at the, f

Silence Insomnia

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She smiled. John spat his coffee and blinked hard. The woman was gone, the blood was gone.

Mama

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So, I rough her up with sand paper, and hit her with chains, making dents. She examines her surfaces, tidily and efficiently, indicating the spots most in need of filling in with scratches and scrapes.

One Last Time, For Old Time's Sake

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We shut the door of her new apartment while Andy went back down to the car for one last load. Terry went into the bathroom and pissed blue. Blue, for God’s sake! Some pills she was taking. But she came back into the living room completely naked and pulled

The Stalker

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I found Marty sitting out on a neighbor’s front porch across the street from his house, which was next door to mine. He was sort of crouched down, early one morning as I headed off to work at the paint factory down in West Berkeley. I wasn’t absolutely su

A Small Piece of the Night Life

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It made him feel better to imagine she was someone else, someone he didn't know. This comfort bothered him

Surge of the Mind

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I see myself. I see infinite emptiness, I see everlasting limitation.

Inbox (1)

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The email landed in his inbox.He'd been staring at the empty screen for a while now even though, really, he hadn't been expecting anything to arrive, yet there it was.He sat and stared, not daring to click it. He knew he shouldn't have sent a mail in the first place. He…

Our Year of Reaping

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At the alternative school one year they had us working in a garden.

Bukowski in Hollywood and the Collating Party at his Apartment

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They called him Hank. We piled in a car and drove up from Irvine to his little bungalow apartment on DeLongpre near Hollywood Blvd. for a collating party for this Mag he started with Neely called “Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns.” No shit, that wa

Three Eights

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He fingered his remaining chips and the usual nervousness tingled at his spine.

How to travel with your Demons (5)

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She believes that this started with a phone call when she walked out of the deli yesterday. She believes that it started when it was snowing this morning in Brooklyn, waiting for her car to arrive, but the truth is, this journey began a long time ago.

Naked Compulsion

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I used to fantasize that we were both free and I’d give up my life in the city so we could live together in a little shotgun house on the bayou where you were born.