Stories tagged flash

The Arrival

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Everybody knew it would happen. It didn’t happen exactly when or how they thought it would, but nonetheless it happened. “I told you it would happen,” a bearded man told his wife.

Waiting for His Wife

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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."

Where They Have to Take You In

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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.

WHITE

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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...

Off The Map

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If there was an apple pie it would have been burning in the oven.

Bruce & Elizabeth (The Sincere Writer Twin)

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All this time I have known on some primal cellular level that what I actually needed was a woman like you...a woman who has read many books and understood them

One Cent Baby

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Yesterday, I ripped off Dollar General. Today my baby died. Tomorrow I will file a lawsuit. After all, someone has to pay.

Bleached

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Lets her tiptoes do the walking.

After the Fall

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They were a family, now, these three: child, widow, widower.

Unintended Consequences

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...you pile into your Mercury and barrel down the street, the air smells like sea, the night goes forever...

Earth's the Right Place for Love

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When he turns around she has her top off and is climbing out of her skirt. "I don't like old men that much," she says. "We don't have to talk. No one will know."

Headstone II

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There was a memorial on the Berkeley Pier where you liked to fish.

Wrong Nail Polish

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Is it any wonder I squeaked?

Rain Dog

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I like the rain. It sends people inside. I get the whole park to myself, and go jogging with my hoodie and a black trash bag for a poncho. "Denny, that's God pissing on you," my Daddy said, watching me splash puddles, when I was five. I liked to stand by the curb next to…

In the Blood

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“Bound to happen,” Marny said. “The way he went on; no doubt he'd end up like this.” Few folks sitting around in a one room shack. Walls were weather stained slats; the door, the only opening. Their fans flapping the air in their…