| Hedonist Eulogy
| | This is for those who pound pavement as if it will disappear by morning. A rucksack slung heavy over... | | Words: | 408 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Driving Points
| | I always knew that the day I lost my fingers would be the day I lost my life, but it never seemed to... | | Words: | 567 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Dinner Was Lovely
| | He wore comfortable clothing and drank his bourbon like a man-giant. Even when I turned away, I knew he took a sip. The clink-clink of his ring finger tapping the glass sang in chorus with the ice... | | Words: | 1516 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Puzzle Peace
| | The package came, mysterious and brown-parcel normal on an afternoon like the one before it. And the... | | Words: | 353 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Danse du Sauvage
| | He wasn’t paying attention. Too caught up with re-inventing the wheel via cell phone, he walked... | | Words: | 317 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| R...
| | ‘A smoke up here is so much better,’ Derrick thought, gazing at the penthouse level apartments across the city. “Yup,” his new partner sighed, as if to answer the unspoken words. “You really... | | Words: | 578 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Necessity of Unease
| | The best of times and the worst of times are misnomers; there are simply times and what you derive... | | Words: | 439 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Riot For Passion
| | She held onto filaments of memory, the entrails of smoke left dangling between her ears that caught... | | Words: | 543 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Your Lips Gave You Away
| | She went to bed wearing the shirt he’d worn all day, a white collar button-up loosely noosed with... | | Words: | 375 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Anatomy Of A Screaming Mountain
| | The rumble woke us from a starlit sleep. Father used to say the thunder was from an angered God, but... | | Words: | 447 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Public |
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| Weathered
| | I walked out onto my porch barefoot and lit the rolled tobacco. The rain came in slantwise and had... | | Words: | 450 | | Comments: | 5 | | Status: | Public |
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| Lex Talionis : The Bulwark's Shadow - Ch.14
| | The electraprod felt like one of my tools in the chamber. I had used it maybe twice in my entire tenure here, but each time it was for something my fists couldn’t end and I was thankful for its... | | Words: | 1561 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| This Sky Is Yours, This Sky Is Mine
| | She said she wanted a soundtrack to steal horses by, so I ordered the stars to play the harps of angels. Sighs like warm breath on bare skin filled the valley as light plucked across the strings and... | | Words: | 352 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Displacement
| | The wind won the battle against his exhalations, sending cigarette ash directly into his eye. The... | | Words: | 497 | | Comments: | 5 | | Status: | Public |
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| While You Were Napping
| | Your calf crept out from beneath the comforter as if afraid to expose the full length of your leg.... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 24-02-08 |
| Words: | 437 | | Comments: | 5 | | Status: | Public |
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| Trauerspiel (Mourning Play)
| | Fallout snow clouds smothered the city and blacked out whichever light was supposed to be out at... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 13-02-08 |
| Words: | 309 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| A Burning Season
| | A zeitgeist hooked on haunting, she kept appearing and wore the walls like fine cloth dresses. Short dark hair and deep brown eyes kept their gaze on me late at night in my study. At first I thought... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 09-02-08 |
| Words: | 736 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Waitress Didn't See A Thing
| | I got caught in the cross-fire of two future lovers staring through each other and felt Cupid’s arrows plunge themselves inside me. One through the ribcage and one below the shoulder blade, they... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 08-02-08 |
| Words: | 357 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Slip Into Something More Comfortable
| | He was drunk and I was morbidly aware of how my body looked in the lamp-light, far from perfection.... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 04-02-08 |
| Words: | 376 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Downtown Azure
| | He slipped behind the wheel and let it take him to a bar in the middle of chaos. The post-curtain... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 04-02-08 |
| Words: | 314 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| Lex Talionis : The Bulwark's Shadow - Ch.12
| | She had put on weight since we last saw each other, but every head in the place rubbernecked its way around to catch a glimpse. Perfection in a miniskirt and curves of delicious poison, she strutted... | | Words: | 2536 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Lex Talionis : The Bulwark's Shadow - Ch.11
| | I remember from my studies the pyramid way of looking at the history of executions. It was something I had never envisioned until a lecture on the psychology of killing a man injected itself into my... | | Words: | 1837 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Lex Talionis : The Bulwark's Shadow - Ch.10
| | I met her after a particularly nasty execution. I don’t normally talk about my work with people outside of the system, but she had a friendly face and an ear that seemed to soak up every word in... | | Words: | 1169 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Lex Talionis : The Bulwark's Shadow - Ch.8
| | Cell technology hasn’t changed much since the prisons went subterranean. Metal bars are easy to make and work just as easily as they have the past several decades, but we use bulletproof,... | | Words: | 2033 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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