Stories tagged short-story

Potsdamer Strasse #4

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‘But isn’t this weird? We’re friends and we’re going to go into a fetish club.’

Invasive Species

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Regret sounds like a rubber band pulled taut, then snapped.

Drummer Boy

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A door slams. The vibrations rattle through the floor, up his legs and into his chest. He can hear the yells, and the tears that mar her voice. Rat-ta-tatRat-ta-tat A door slams. Eyes closed while images of a life he will never live flicker on…

A Woman Who Watches

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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.

Doggone

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Abby sat on the slate floor of the strange kitchen and gagged: Mr. Titters's end had precipitated a surge of diarrhea—frothy, moist, and impossible to expunge entirely from the white carpet, as if he had became an icing tube in…

77 Words About Last Night

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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.

Cougar

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Our Date Was Better In Reverse

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I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.

Curb Appeal

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He kept the lawn mowed at the perfect height. He mowed it twice a week to one inch. Some weeks he mowed it a third time for good measure.

Flying Tiger

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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.

Unexplored Territory

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Why couldn't I go to Borneo? It's a big island far away. They have bats and giant lizards, and lots of trees. It's untamed jungle out there, but I saw on TV the other night that they're starting to cut it down.

4 Chapters

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But I don't see the cabinets, or know how to put the 4 chapters he's talking about today into the drawers that are invisible, floating, above his bed he's been in for a year, me sitting next to him, becoming a spinster.

Welcome to the Occupation

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You just watch, the schoolteachers’ll be next and then you’ll see shit go down. Imagine what happens when a fifth-grader sees his teacher getting frog-marched through a crowd on YouTube.

Gabbie Zombie

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And it whispered like any wood. And the blade moaned when he got too deep and tried to cut too much. And as the dead parts of him came off, in tendrils and dust, the man's chest began to move, like the hands around his heart had let go.

When We Stopped Sound

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“But it's not fair. Tanya Harding is still alive, but she's pretty sad right now. The least we could do is give her a moment of silence!” Amanda kicked the dirt. “God, it's like you're in love with her or something,” Patrick said.