Stories tagged flash-fiction

HOUSE OF GHOSTS

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The blue Victorian at 1145 White Street shifts in its foundation, creaks, and settles in for the night. The girls are bundled into their beds. My wife, too, has gone to sleep. I’m alone in the kitchen, steeping chamomile tea, coughing phlegm into the wr

Low On the Hog

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Living lower on the hog than anticipated lower on the hog than previously expected lower on the hog than desired Living on the underside of the hog belly pretty much bouncing on the ground beneath the aforementioned hog belly Living clos

SMOKE

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And so it begins, like this, waiting to long for a lazy train out of West Toledo...

Texas hold ’em

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. . . at midnight three zombies and a vampire gather for a game of Texas hold ’em.

The Hunter

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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...

White Death

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Tom flipped his legs over the side of the boat, put on his fins. His friend, Jason, checked the spear gun. “Good to go,” Jason said. “You good?” Tom was an experienced free diver and hunter. “No problem. Let's get…

That Godot Guy Again - a True-Life Story

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This is what happened today.

The Linguist

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I let the little fingers slip thinking they couldn't stand to hold on anymore. When they were done they said addled and I was left behind in the room with only my hand. I hurt myself trying to picture the pretty girls and they took out a piece above my eye. …

Soul-Mates and Star-Crossed Lovers

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She can’t let it go. She loved him so much. She wondered if he was still alive, even after he rejected her completely and threw her love away. Still I got a message asking if I had heard from him, if I knew anything, or whether he was still even ali

And so it goes

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And so H.T. Thomas VII left the ranch to his younger brothers, took his inheritance in letters of credit, began as a wildcatter, plunging pipes into Texas pink granite like straws into chocolate milk shakes.

Why I Became A Priest

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That monk stopped the Ferris wheel with his mind, I swear.

Nativity in Tahiti: Paul Gauguin

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The young girl has given up, and lies sprawled out upon the yellow cover on the bed, with her blue sarong wrapped loosely around her body. One arm lay back up above her head, where it was thrown during the exertion of birth. Her yellow halo surr

Conspiracy of Me

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There’s only one thing to say when 217 clones of yourself are walking the earth, wreaking havoc, conspiring to install a global oligarchy despite how many lives are ruined and innocents killed: I’m sorry.

Box

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"She said she wanted to move from point A to point B, that she needed help getting there. I told her I’d do what I could (despite my condition)."

A Sunday Afternoon in Paris

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He would lean on his window sill in the evening and watch the whores. They wore gaudy clothes and too much makeup.