Stories tagged micro-fiction

Max's on Broadway

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I got turned around at The Block in a thick, dense layer of alcohol-induced confusion and disorientation, and decided to park and go get a drink somewhere. The girls were out working.

Angelique

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She is an old soul...

From This Distance

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Can you remember now? How we could each disappear completely, connected despite fault lines. . . .

Hard Times

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None of this is real, he says, and the path slopes down to a house that is possibly haunted. One always looks in such windows, one cannot not look at the predictable detritus of another's failure, a queer satisfaction, a fairy's dust. But no, not real, none of it. And…

Dancing at the Crossroads

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We lined up opposite one another, instructed to stare into the other person's eyes for fifteen seconds. No talking. The debris of loneliness. Eyes welled with tears.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #1

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Watch the ocean turn to yama budo ink, darkish blood swirling with the salt water.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #7

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This is no time for those of a religious persuasion. No.

Tying Flies

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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.