Stories tagged flash-fiction

Real

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That was the start of it, the vigils. Every night at the foot of the Gilt Spears a group of people congregated in a housing estate to look up at the stars. Housewives with working away husbands, fractious toddlers hanging upside down…

The Department of Lost Dreams

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You would think that a department responsible for recovering readers from falling into the illusory realities of their books would merit an office in a less obvious state of disrepair.

Antimacassar

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She likes it. Late in the night. Barefoot. Dirty toenails in the flickering light from the refrigerator as it bounces against the Three A.M. shadows. The fridge sweats. The compressor groans. Then rattles for hours in protest... And she…

Pinwheel Hill

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Daftsville is a strange little place, found on the back of some treasure maps.

Carbon Dioxide

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I believe we’re all born with a certain amount of happiness

Blessed

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The first thing Noah did, more or less, was plant a vineyard.

Eighty-eight

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She realised that things you can't prove can be more intimate than the things you know to be true.

I'm a Bohemian-American

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My first and so far only visit to my homeland of Prague was first described to me by a tourist guidebook, which laid out many of the fundamentals one must follow while travelling there. It was pointed out, for instance, that we would be “unlikely to encou

Either/Or

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Life says a lot when you listen.

Salome

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She didn't know this man but there was something about the way stood there wordlessly perturbed, head tilted to one side that made it impossible for her to finish her sentence.

Dramatic Effect

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You wanted transcendence, wanted height, danger, the tracks blurred into murky distances behind and in front of you. You slipped, reached for it, starlight shining in your eyes, something you didn't have when I held your hand. We didn't fold the…

This Outhouse Reeks

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The bathroom had exposed rusty pipework, A minty lemonade smell, Ice in the urinal, And a wall of stone-cold mirror. She put some lipstick on, but it looked fake under the lint-covered bulb dangling overhead. She wiped off the lipstick but…

He Brings Things Closer

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Jack, the red-headed boy with the big freckled cheeks, grabs at her curls and yanks.

Rebirth

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The sidewalk moves like jelly and he tells me it’s okay.

Seven Forever

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It was my fault.