Stories tagged flash

A halo 'round the moon

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... a night so cold that your words freeze mid-flight and topple to the ground, shatter, tinkle into shards of poems that sparkle in the sunlight on the snow in the morning.

Deal Me Out

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Vegas is turning out to be my kind of town. Easy money, free booze, and everyone is too overstimulated to realize I’m broadcasting right into their noggins.

Abre La Puerta

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My daughter, now four, can count to 15 in Spanish. How old are you? Cuatro. How old will you be on your birthday? Cinco. She likes Dora and thinks Diego is weird.

Secrets

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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.

Snake, Rope

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The snake was fang-less and so had to choke her, making the kill bloodless and drawn out, just the way she liked it.

Bookends of a Life: II

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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...

Bedford Stuyvesant

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Voices whispered in tongues toward MacDougal Street. Spanish wine bled through broken glass. The arms of the marble arch cut long at its sides while it wept over me.

Half-and-Half

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Terry worked in a factory out in Northlake where she added a little squirt of milk and another little squirt of cream to those tiny half-and-half coffee creamers you find at every motel in the country. The owner of that factory hired only women to work

Exile

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Dandelions wither as I approach and the grass dies under my feet.

Routine

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She could live there forever, in that smokey memory...

Bedtime Stories

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I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.

The Wedding

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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.

Parsing We

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An excellent plan. Just like old times.

Abre La Puerta

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My daughter, now four, can count to 15 in Spanish. How old are you? Cuatro. How old will you be on your birthday? Cinco. She likes Dora and thinks Diego is weird.

A Few Introductory Words

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And without further ado, The Author.