Stories tagged flash-fiction

Realistic Three Hole Marilyn Monroe

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I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.

My Favorite Color

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Mom was a crazy spiritual type...

What She Thought It Was

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She refuses to let her eyes cry. Her eyes played tricks on her and showed her one thing was really another. They don't deserve to cry.

How I Met My Wife

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I jumped in the cab and headed to the airport. My flight to LA was in an hour. As I headed for the door, a mad dash really, I knocked over a tabletop sculpture of Dante that a friend bought for my wife and I in Florence the year before.…

Heading West

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He says, he’s going away next week. I can’t go; the kids are still in school. It’s just a few days. [166 words]

Heading West (edited)

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We stare past each other. I have my electronic friends. He has his televised beliefs. [163 words]

Battle at the Bodega

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Mr. Lowell knelt down and put his face in his hands, his knees quickly covered in blood. Sobs.

Half-and-Half

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Terry worked in a factory out in Northlake where she added a little squirt of milk and another little squirt of cream to those tiny half-and-half coffee creamers you find at every motel in the country. The owner of that factory hired only women to work

Exile

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Dandelions wither as I approach and the grass dies under my feet.

Bedtime Stories

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I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.

The dream diary of Anna Mendez - Page 63

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... strange pipes making music like the sounds that would drift through the doors of purgatory.

I Like it This Way

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Through its branches we saw a couple. Teenagers, narrow and pale, two young birch trees, their roots twisted, submerged in the water.

Serving Up Apathy

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"Did you want that with the shrimp or the chicken?" the waitress asked. "Uh, shrimp is fine" the old man replied. "I'll be right back with some more bread" the waitress plasters a fake smile on as she walks away. 'What the hell am I doing. I've got a BS i

The Happiest Mall In America

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Scientists say that if humans just splashed sex hormones into each others faces, we’d heal and live like animals again.

Parsing We

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An excellent plan. Just like old times.