Stories tagged flash

Just a Matter of Time

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so maybe I should just stick a pin into a wall map

How Chupacabra Broke the Heart of God

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And God said, Let us create a being in our image, after our likeness, for God was alone in the universe.

Beautiful Girls

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and all the beautiful girls are in the river And they went in dirty But they came out clean

Europe, 1960

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The painting was on loan from a gallery in Chicago. We stood there connecting the dots.

Minnesota Menage

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I peel off my shorts and tee-shirt, step out of my shoes, and crawl into bed. She wakes up then. "Oh, my goodness," she says.

Measure Seventeen

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Blending in at a rock concert in ballet flats was harder than she thought it would be. The heavy eye makeup and lit cigarette she never brought to her lips put her somewhere between “Trying Too Hard” and “Bless Her Heart.” But she was here for…

The Dummy's Guide to Marriage Proposals

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She first asked him to marry her when she was five, when 'marry me' meant 'I like you more than anybody else' and she loved everybody around her who was nice to her. And he was so very nice to her. …

W.P.A.

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A white man stopped by today. Said the government hired him to talk to us ex-slaves about those times way back when. With so many out of work in this here Depression, a job's a job, I reckon.

An association game with the word 'guilt' (or how (not) to die inside)

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The past operates with incredible gravity. Powerful, efficient, deceptive. Thin, sleek cords sent out by it attach themselves to your back, your legs, your buttocks, the back of your head. Resist. Walk. One leg after another. Easy does it, like a baby. Do

A Year of Lost Things

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There are so many things I'm missing; I've become so forgetful in the year since you've been gone.

The Lonely Heart Hunts

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I lever a bb into the chamber and slide the door open. I step through and close it quick because the dogs know that sound.

First Contact

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All through their descent sequence K’var had nervous premonitions.

A Black Night

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The hairs on my arm lift with the breeze; a haunting breath from the open window carrying night-scented stock from the black-shrouded garden.

Tenderness

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Ronnie Thomley banged on our door early one morning. He runs heavy machinery for Willie Thrift, the pond man. He showed up at our place in the pine woods of panhandle Florida driving a compact air-conditioned tractor equipped with a front-loaded rotary…

Obsidian

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Listen to me, at the end of all things, and I will tell you her story.