Category: Short Stories

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In The River’s Current

Short Story   It was a Thursday in 1946 when the father of my father didn’t come home. This wasn’t uncommon, but that night was one of the few nights he promised he would...

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Talk 24 – Hide

Serial Fiction It’s full with rats in front of your house. I throw them bread and watch them fight over it. I do that with people. They chase away the rouches, they don’t like...

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The Pool Party and the Body Shot

Short Story   It was a hot summer day, around four o’clock in the afternoon. Slick called me and told me to come to the pool. He sounded drunk. He said there was a...

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Animal Dilemmas – Octopus Anaconda

Serial Fiction Skins of anacondas of all sizes decorated the roofs of the giant’s huts. The giants were a superstitious lot and believed the remains of these elusive beasts that had been known to...

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Floored

Floor 2a “Excuse me, sir. Which elevator-” “The one on the left, floors three to fifty-five. The right, floors fifty-six to ninety-eight.” The former, with a fresh coat of gel in his hair and...

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Lemming Scavengers – Final

Serial Fiction   Jamie was shaken; had Rick really done this just because she said no to his prom proposal? “So wait, let me get this straight…you killed all of these people just to...

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Talk 23 – Action

Serial Fiction Is dinner ready? How is your brother? I asked first. You’re drunk. He is not well. I have done everything. He cannot breath without the oxygen mask. We just tried to entertain...