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| Once Bitten
| | I found myself in my neighbor's house surrounded by snakes. Every direction I turned, I saw snakes. Rattlesnakes nestled coiled on chairs, cobras hung from lamps, and vipers hissed their ropy way... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | Horror | | Updated: | 07-01-08 |
| Words: | 393 | | Comments: | 11 | | Status: | Public |
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| Gurney Drive
| | A small boy skips down Gurney Drive in the balmy, breezy twilight. About half an hour ago, the sun blinked away in the west. Now the moon floats above the Malaysian island of Penang. Families and... | | Words: | 427 | | Comments: | 9 | | Status: | Public |
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| A Strange Circumstance
| | I saw it early one morning before dawn. I was driving my old pickup down the straight, dusty farm road. The moon shone so bright that there was no need for headlights. If my dog Trouser had been with... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | SciFi | | Updated: | 13-08-07 |
| Words: | 583 | | Comments: | 8 | | Status: | Public |
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| Charlie's Inconvenience
| | Helen buttoned her red wool coat, put on her close-fitting cloche hat, and stepped out into the night. Lamps and signs shone on Seattleā??s wet streets, glowing in the moist air. The door of Helen's... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 06-08-07 |
| Words: | 901 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Robertson's
| | Flo adjusted her pearly cat-eye glasses and clasped her hands together as she stood back to admire her handiwork. She frowned, stepped forward, and smoothed a wrinkle out of the mannequin's... | | Words: | 636 | | Comments: | 16 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Bowls Club Dinner
| | As we pulled into the parking lot of the bowls club in Handsworth Wood, my first view was white on green. White hats, white hair, white clothes, white shoes, green grass. This was my first encounter... | | Words: | 945 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Public |
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| One Sunday Morning
| | This is based on a true story (sure, I took some liberties with the ending!)... this one's for you, Dad. Heh heh... *************************** My wife was in the kitchen reading the paper and I was... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 13-02-07 |
| Words: | 369 | | Comments: | 8 | | Status: | Public |
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