Stories tagged flash

Chewy

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Chewy is an old dog. His face is mostly white.

77 Words About Last Night

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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.

Three More for Nailpolish

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...this dark night and dead-eyed man wait, especially for you.

The creature in the coal

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Heat wavered the air as they sped along the tracks, Cal in nought but a pair of short trousers held up with rope as he fuelled the beast. He'd swayed into a rhythm soon enough that morning, shovelling the dusty black lumps from left to…

Measure Two

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It started in a smocked dress and socks trimmed with lace. I sat beside my mother on the piano bench and studied the crease between her eyebrows while she penciled notes into her book. She touched my knee absently to stop my leg from swinging. I crawled into her lap and…

Interstate

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By Jackson, you called and said, I'll be too drunk to drive. Hell, if I do my very best, I could be blind by Shreveport.

Sounds of Silence

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Mirko returns! All the words have been said.

Lingering over Drinks

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I signal the bartender with a little circular motion.

things to know about the people parked along the road that runs though Humboldt Park: part 19

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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.

One Slow Dance with Buddha

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So suppose that it is a cool night with just a hint of autumn in the air and this woman, just your average woman, say, is standing in the dark so nondescript and let's say he'd looked at her, looked through her, half a dozen times or so in that sea…

The Artist

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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?

Ouch!

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I spot another fat lady in another part of the store, and I slap her butt, too. She tells me I'm a bad boy.

Rainier

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We load up the Chevy, including a U-Haul rack on top, and pull out of the trailer park headed for Ft. Lewis, a post still not far enough away from Fallujah.

Svart Annika and the Unicorn [1]

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After a couple glasses of wine, The Unicorn looks a lot like Alexander SkarsgÄrd.

The Ungrateful Dead and the Human Resource Recovery and Refineries Act

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But then the boney corpses, one here, two there, violated public soccer fields and little league baseball diamonds.