Stories tagged short-story

The Desert Lights

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It's so damn hot out that one day my skin melts right off. Slipping off my bones in chunks until it forms one big puddle on the floor below me. I can't even move I'm so overheated; all I can do is watch as my body is reduced to nothing but a skeleton. At

The Burning of Deyrolle or Losing Hugh

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Deyrolle, established by the granddaughter of Jean–Babtiste Deyrolle, to house his scientific debris became a Paris fixture. A museum masquerading as a store and when casually mentioned in HG or when it was discovered that David Sedaris was an aficionado

The snow blower

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Anita could barely see. It was just a white flurry of flakes. ...

Urban Legend (parts 1-6)

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The thing with my father is, he just doesn't remember. That's how we fleece him. Today Benny is me and I'm the nephew. I'm never me. I can't.

War Zone

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Her mouth was a war zone, with pistols for teeth and a knife for a tongue. She'd never been to a dentist, but was very familiar with gun polish and a rag. She didn't know the pain of a cavity but she'd be damned before she got…

You Are Being Hijacked

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His only weakness, Flo notes, is the ice-cream headache.

Golden State

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The first door on the right is the bedroom. Even if I try to forget; my body remembers and the strength of its yearning fairly pulls me inside. I noticed you left the door ajar. Really you should be more careful.

The Geoff Thing.

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Yeah. But why would he say that? Who are you asking? I couldn't believe it. I mean I knew he was working up to something and he hasn't been happy over at Jay's for a while but I thought that was about his dad and the…

Open Orchidae

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But Jana insisted to see this miracle, this antidote for the mundanity of existence.

~psychosexual suzy~

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I hear all the static in her head, all the fuzzy threads from half a mile away. She hates dirt. She hates the couples who come in and talk stupid lies at each other. It's so simple with her. I ask what she likes. The feeling of soft wool on her bare nippl

Vincent

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They were really big, a lot larger and taller and stronger than he was. Sometimes they were holding him, all of him, high up in the air. Sometimes they would have him crawl in front of them. Often they put him into some form of holding cell.

Belonging

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Vanessa wasn't going to get another choice in this game. This was her only chance to be a part of the Ian-crowd. All she had to do was choose correctly from the three cards sitting between her and the group facing her. In the cold and dimly-lit room, Vanessa stared intently…

Away Like the Indians

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I was the only one. My mother was the only daughter, and her four brothers each had only girls, making me the lone grandson. Of course no one would ever admit it, but I felt it. I was the favorite. The only boy.As a child I would sit at the kitchen table and we would draw.…

The Slingback Soldier

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I knew I shouldn't have joined up!, but they made it all look so glamorous in the posters. That mustachioed man in uniform,…. it was as if he was pointing right at me,his eye's piercin me soul….. made me feel ever so special… ‘Adventure!, Excitement!, and a…

Appeasement

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"Asaka-sama, we have been beset by the foulest of demons and nothing we do will rid us of it." The prostrated villager quivered from head to foot on the tatami floor. "Please, we are unworthy but would beg for your help!"Ietsugu's heart raced at the statement, though he…