Stories tagged flash-fiction

Air Plant

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Wild oats. Universal life. Girl with the pearl earring. On the train to Babylon, a dog asking questions, not just another dog on an endless search for good. Putting unhappiness aside. Dropping our pretenses. That is why we wanted to live the

Street Traveler

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I travel the streets. I wear a red beret. I'm a Guardian Angel. I've seen a lot of shit in my 10 years: children pushed off rusty monkey bars and beaten with swing chains; cold rain falling angrily on blood polluted streets; women screaming on the subways and…

The Greenery of Spring Time

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In the village of Green Valley, people only spoke of the dead once a year.

Dormilona

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These fern-like weeds grow along the roads. “Watch this,” you say, bending down over a plant. The touch of your fingertip sets it recoiling, stunned–a fun, jungle trick you picked up somewhere along your way.

Mickey

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I spent three hours of my Friday afternoon with Mickey in Paddy's Irish Pub in historic downtown Charleston. I had grown up in Charleston. After finishing up law school at The University of South Carolina, I was able to move back with my wife, Sarah, and…

Salesman

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A salesman, a born salesman like my brother, is always and only involved in the Moment, and it is the sale itself that is at the heart of the moment, and my brother Harris was really at the top of his form as a salesman. It can probably best be said, th

Becoming an Oates Girl

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She walked, thighs flaming fire-cold, without complaining or grumbling or cursing the goddamn Midwestern winters the way the others did.

All Bones

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If you get another mother don't call her Mama.

Magnum Opus, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man

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Imortél and his masterpiece looked deeply at one another: both were nearly complete.

Scarf

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Phil doesn’t know anything. He thinks his truck is possessed by his dead mother.

Mare

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She pulls out of love, while you sit upon the rumble seat, a granted is taken for every crack of the whip. She pulls out of fear. She pulls.

One Chunky Elvis - To Go

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Now, heaven help the man who doesn’t bow to a Semite woman from the tribe of Esther. No sir, death is never an option with them because it would put a premature end to the suffering.

Dr. Dick Destroyed the Delicate Balance of My Unhappy Marriage

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Setting down the ceramic mug I gruffly and finally understood that the only thing that made me happy was her continual unhappiness, so fuck that new car and haircut. Dr. Dick is going to receive two nasty emails: One from me, and one from my lawyer.

How Bittie Betina Learned to Fly

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Because she is so little and there is so little to do, Bittie Betina spends some mornings dropping bits of colored thread through the cracks in the floor.

Fade

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I can take you away, away, away.