Stories tagged flash-fiction

New Baby Girl (revised)

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We were both up early when the big day came. Not by choice, though. I had a rough day at the office on Friday and was planning on having a nice, long and lazy Saturday morning, sipping my coffee instead of guzzling, taking time to digest…

The way the sky was now

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I’d like to say we didn’t remember the Alamo, but one of ours had to piss. We ran into youknowwho and he was fighting Mexicans and it was so beautiful and there were fireworks, or else it was God’s wrath, or else it was the sky now.

Haricot Verts

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Tell him he's wrong. Tell him you're more the canned string bean kind of girl and you know it.

Union of Opposites

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I was a Mormon once, but then decided to give it up and start drinking. Drinkers have all the fun, have raucous sex in the back seat of a car, smoke pot. My first beer was a Budweiser. Not a good one to start with, but it was free, so I took it. Can't…

Provided

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A man bows his head and crosses his chest before crossing the street and the rain keeps falling on his bare blue shirt and on top of his head The taxis will not stop The light’s still red as the man waits for the sign of the hands

Intolerable Impositions

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"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."

Hot Weather

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I would like to invite the public to an open-air, environmental art piece called Hot Weather. The exhibition will take place this summer. It will not begin until the temperature reaches 90 degrees. This demonstration is available free of charge

Tablecloth Dresses: Song

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I see you’re wearing your tablecloth top again your tablecloth dress to impress me and distress me with all your tablecloth positions for your luncheons on the grass with all your famous friends who found you on your ass Yes we can

Rough Cut

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He bites and imagines, numbed by want.

Human Thesaurus

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Once when we were new she swung her foot in rage and I caught it. Black stocking, toenails polished red, beautiful silk appendage. Urge, desideratum, compulsion. I pulled her toward me, collapsed us together.

Benefit

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I'm an artist, baby. We make our own rules.

Feeeeeeeeuck!

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He banged it on the leather chair and screamed like this... "fukfukfukeeeeeeee!"

French Kiss

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The date began badly...

Prince Charming

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They could have heard a pin drop in the car for the rest of the ride to her house, where she looked at him one last time and found nothing admirable, nothing memorable about him.

The Theory of Color

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The story of the black pen drawing a dark hole makes everything seem so elaborate and obscure. Or even a seven-year-old leading police on a wild car chase to avoid church. Or naming a new band Fuchsia, which looks like the beginning of an