Stories tagged flash-fiction

My Girlfriend's Birthday

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I bought my girlfriend a basket of breadfruit for her 21st birthday. “What's all this jackfruit doing on the table?” she asked. “And why are there candles stuck in them?” “Breadfruit,” I said, smiling. …

Martini Business

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He didn’t get the idea of dialects, but on those nights he heard broken Italian from the owner of a restaurant and gathering place for celebrities and men in sharkskin.

Easy to Show

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“3.9 million dollars,” she whispered to the window.

Cold Feet

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“…And his smell. That Brett smell. It might become my smell…”

Talk To the Bionic Hand

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Talk To the Bionic Hand “Scientists have discovered how to program intention into a bionic hand so that it will react to impulses from the brain like a normal hand” Man found being choked by his own out-of-control bionic hand after han

The Other Day

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Nothing I did could have brought her back.

The Pitch

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Syl would be in her late forties, forty-nine as I recalled. I last saw her sometime during the build-up for the faux millennium apocalypse, so there was nothing for me to do but try to imagine the hard body gone somewhat tender with age. I was wrong.

Your Love Is Breadfruit, Falling from the Sky

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He never mentioned his song “Breadfruit” fell from the sky, landed in his hand. The song climbed the charts: most downloaded, most played, most everything.

Talia Unbound

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She hoped he wouldn't want to rent her for for another day. God, no! She needed to re-charge. You couldn't just turn her on and off like a flashlight.

Digging In The Darkness

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I dig with no light to guide the aim of my shovel but the stars peeking through the trees which are fuller now then when you went away.

Stations of the Cross

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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”

Breath

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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.

Selfgod

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Loving himself. Loved by no one. Loving no one.

Juan Looking Good

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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.

Lucky Me

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So I lay there, thinking about the argument Michelle and I had a few hours before.