Stories tagged flash

Old Haunts

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“Why do you write filth?” they howl

Safari Club, Estacada OR, circa 1979

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The walrus head seems impossibly large. She hoists me up so I can rub my fingers across his hard muzzle, play the whiskers like strings on a ukulele.

The Show Must Go On

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I had the idea for a pageant for my obedience school at spring graduation

The Way It Is

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She felt something in her backside crack...

The Taming

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N-n-never screamscold a cat.

Two-Hour Delay

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Marge sat up and looked over the fitted sheet: little flecks of red outlined the wide silhouettes of her and her husband. They’d been in the trailer for almost a year and were still working on what Marge called “livability.” Bugs, mold, odors. It wasn’t e

The Other Side of the Wall

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I’m glad they put the wall up. When it gets a little humid around here, I can smell those damn people.

Bearing Witness

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I hold them to the light...

Rejection at the Gates of Heaven

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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"

Navigation and Perseverance

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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”

Knowledge of pain at the edge of the world

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There’s a way out of this … there’s always a way.

Safa's Hair

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We ask where you cut it and you tell us Sally leads you to a folding chair in her beauty salon's basement. We imagine a prisoner waiting for interrogation, scissors sliding over your neck.

Economics

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Man, I'm not feeling so happy anymore. I tried to tackle my money but it slipped past me and ran out the door. I don't have a clue what to do. I'm hungry and I can't be worrying about you while both of us are trying to snag the same pair of…

Unfinished Business

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you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met

Divided

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Sasha and I had snorted a table of cocaine and I had her trapped inside my Joy Division bedroom.