Stories tagged short-short

Me moir my yore

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The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Listen

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I love you mummy, don’t think I don’t love you because I don’t say it.

Windowers

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naturally, the windowless ones are the worst.

Subway Imitator

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The imitator’s segue to his sad life story was, “But what isn’t funny…”

Man Down

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Ceramic. Reflective aluminum. Plastic in varying shades of pastel. A cluster of twenty bowls lined in a tidy row against the far wall of the kitchen. Leo fills each one; he has a system, food (two cups, no more, no less) then water (to the brim), food the

The Girl in the Storm

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There once was a girl who was lost in a storm. She wandered this way and that, this way and that, trying to find a way home. But the sky was too dark, and the rain too fierce; all the girl did was go in circles. Then, suddenly, there were arms around her

Y

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Is there one who understands me?

They Never Did

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I sang John Stewart's "Gold" on my bike route.

Egg Salad Sandwich

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If you are a vegetarian in prison, turn your weeks into egg-salad sandwiches.

Telling Maybelline Jones

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Maybelline Jones is my sister, my friend, and I try to tell her the right way to be.

Therapy

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On my twenty-third Wednesday meeting with the psychologist I told her that when I was about ten years old I'd set fire to the woods up by the reservoir and blamed Tommy Cotton.

The Room Below

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The closed door swallowed up both voices, and all I could make out afterward were muffled pleas and angry answers that died completely.

Patches

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...the Irish girl with the big red bow in her ponytail, who pushed her grandmother-in-wheelchair down the stairs.

Alicia

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What terrified me the most was your nose.

Immigration

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Hecho en Mexico