Stories tagged flash

Lost

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“It’s lost. Lost and gone. Forever. My love for you. I’m sorry.”

The Devil’s Troubadour

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The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.

The United Church of Cigarettes

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Most keep their eyes closed. Some look up at the cloud covering the kneeling ecclesiastical trash perched high. Others look around, overly warm.

Plaque on the wall of the new gymnasium at Middleton Elementary School

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I'm sure this sort of thing happens all the time.

Inaccurate Recollection

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Q: How do you explain immaculate conception?

things to know about the people parked along the road that runs through Humboldt Park: part 1

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It was as if every wrong foisted upon his ancestors stirred up a war in him and he was charged with intending the canon at the living.

A Nailpolish No

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For Sylvia. Who else?

Our Time as Men

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Rhonda looks guilty as it is, don’t you think? That hair! And the unhappiness smeared across her face like war paint after a war.

Twister

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The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.

Bodensee

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They come for us just as we are leaving our lakeside villa...

God Wants a Sandwich

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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...

Mystery

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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.

Still Crazy After All These Years

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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...

Hot Dish

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Millie was a good woman, Bobby said. A good Christian woman. Well, I said, you can’t hold that against her.

Meanings

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Most things come down to carnality, it seems, and dreams are no exception – or that’s how the teller of dreams told it to me.