Stories tagged flash

Reverie

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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.

You are beautiful just the way you are

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There were avocados splayed across menus like 1950′s pinup girls–all thigh and curve. Avocados in California omelets. Avocados split and diced, sprayed with lime, slapped on bagels, served with tomato.

Flowers for Our Dead Lovers

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We brought flowers for our dead lovers

Snapshots

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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.

Unkind Myth

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Here I am, my raging clitoris on parade.

The Number 4

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He'd always envied the number four with its symmetry and its squatty complaisance.

Variation on a Variation of a Mode

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Borges must be so proud somewhere

House By The Sea

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We were young, she said, it was all in front of us. We should never have settled for this.

After Bukowski

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The night she left she claimed she fucked Bukowski.

Bending Bottle Caps

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Always after opening his beer, my grandfather would place the bottle cap between his thumb and forefinger and bend it in half.

A bottle of raspberries

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Somewhere amongst the jagged greenery of Auchterarder lies a bottle of my childhood. It hides intact, leaves rotting beneath. Maybe shrews have scrabbled its narrowed neck and birds pecked its silver lid, hoping for the tender fruits inside.There must be alcohol now. I…

The Fortune of an Accident

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Staring at her horribly disfigured face, I envied her.

Dream World Ideations

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My god, will it ever end? Not if you don't want it to.

The Adversary

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When He had built the Universe, there was no greater joy in putting it together. The angels themselves were perfect constructs of concept and design, embodiment of breathing principle over particle waves. They each had their purpose; each mortar or a supp

Rain Will Come

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Sometimes the potatoes fall out.