Stories tagged flash

Short Terms Plans

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It's going to be expensive, but it's booked and I am going to enjoy every single minute of it.

Worth a Thousand Words

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He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.

Double Vision

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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.

Alchemy explained

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Turning lead into gold, water to wine, crackers into wedding cakes.

Belly Button (#5)

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In the bowels of the cathedral, a new line of blood came down from the corner and entered the web of those that had been there before

Chair and Umbrella, $25

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If white t-shirts are only an SPF of 8, she couldn’t even imagine what a white nylon-mesh umbrella on this godforsaken beach might be in terms of protection.

Coyote Agonistes

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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.

Sometimes Errands Take Longer Than You Might Think

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She dropped the bundle of faggots she had collected and spun around with her mouth open.

Submission

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Periodically I try to vacuum up their eight-legged asses but they hide in the cable drop.

When the Sun Sets Like a Nice Salmon Mousse

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My M.F.A. in very concrete poetry was earned in a nonresidential treatment center.

Who Is Without Flaws

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We ate takeout Chinese. Two days before, we learned the feds were coming. Two months into this job, it was time to call my parents, say, I’m jobless again.

Celebration

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He looked more and more like a child’s sketch called “man”.

Transgression

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I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.

a microcosm

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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.

Click

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I am going to quit clicking refresh, only because it is clear nothing is happening out there. After I click refresh just one more time, that is, and then I am closing the window. After clicking one more last time. …