Stories tagged flash

The Bicycle

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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.

Trunk stories

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She’s there... I don’t think I’ve ever seen my father this naked. Ever.

Five Easy Pieces, Disassembled

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How's that for a mix of worlds.

Press Star You Got Options

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think of some time you really had fun; rubber tire pendulum, hung above the swimming hole

Forty Versts to Petrograd

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"Off. Off with you all," he mutters.

Monogamy

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cummings starts to sniff, his usual routine. He feigns aloofness while raising one wolfy leg to pee on Eliot's sneakers.

Zoo Story

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I tell my friend, the animal lover, not to get too near the panther's cage. "Why not?" she asks. "You'll see," I say.

Notes for an Essay on Points of Crossing

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A sign? Maybe. Who can say -

Notes for an Essay on Points of Crossing

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A sign?Maybe. Something to learn? Who can say —

No, You Don’t Know What I am Thinking

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Scratch his eyes out, flashed through Edgar's head, scratch his eyes out.

Manhattan, Sunday Morning

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She lights an Eve and sighs out the smoke as Heracles drips into the passenger seat, wiping bloody palms pierced by zebra mussels against the cloth triangle between his thighs.

The Wooden City

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Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!

Reminder To Clean

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In odd intervals a cheery robotic voice cried out,"Hello!" What the hell?

I, Mona Lisa

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People have been staring at me for over 500 years, and I’m exhausted. When everyone leaves, I get these four walls to myself.

The Apostate

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A crone dressed in black pours liquid from a bottle onto the egg. Whiskey. Gasp! The egg cooks before our eyes!