Stories tagged flash-fiction

Silly Sad Sausage

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(...) Suddenly there is a tram passing by and kills the Sausage (...)

He's So Pretty I'd Dump My Boyfriend For Him

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I remember when we first met, telling my friends, He’s so pretty I’d dump my boyfriend for him. I remember driving all around Elmhurst looking for parking. We sat in the car eating figs and popcorn. We tried to throw the fig pits or stumps, or wh

The Mosaic Thief

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Bit by bit I was traveling away, we thought. Maybe I’d join myself, all together, in Toronto. Or in an industrial coffee can. Or in the closet. “Check the closet,” I pointed.

Do You Smoke?

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Do you remember buying me a pair of knee-high boots? They laced up the front, I think. Really cool boots. Strange, the stuff you remember. To be truthful, I can't remember exactly what information Sharon and I exchanged about you. I know we didn't get

Picking

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You hear the thrum of blowflies first...

The Great American Novelist Blues

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So, I’m thinking, who’s the real bad-ass … and in 1972, it was Norman Mailer, right?

Bucket

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There was a bucket of shit . . .

My Heart goes Boom

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On his knees in front of the transplant board, he pleaded for his ailing heart, spluttering on its last dying beats, to be replaced with a bomb.

Legs like David

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She had legs like David and Joseph was drawn to them irremediably.

Runt Of the Litter

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I remember so many things … do you remember who I am yet? I attached pictures to jog your memory, including the house on Euclid where I lived. That’s my high school graduation photo. I was wearing my hair short that year, and blonde and natural,

The Happiest Place

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I normally don't photograph well, but today – well, today's different.

Hive mentality

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My anger over yesterday's argument with you slipped from memory when I felt the first of the two hundred bee stings, each tiny jab another burst of brilliant pain, and each little attack another reminder to watch where I'm walking.

Stop screwing around

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Bill threw two patties on the flattop and turned up the radio. The graveyard shift was getting off. Some went to the bar. Some went home. Some came here.

The Longer

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The longer this goes on the worse it gets.

Sack

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He cut a hole in the sack