| News Flash
| | You can see the drunken stupor painted by flashes on her face: She has been picked-up by the police... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 15-06-08 |
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| Daring to stay
| | The pressure started early:... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 24-06-08 |
| Words: | 193 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Paper Wings
| | Elaine drew some very fine butterfly wings for her daddy, but - unfortunately – the entomologist... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 08-10-08 |
| Words: | 102 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Public |
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| When it rains
| | I remember the rain in Leiden, flowing horizontally as it sometimes does in Holland, the smell of... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-07 |
| Words: | 114 | | Comments: | 13 | | Status: | Public |
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| What of the muffin top ? (drabble)
| | â??Carrots ? What about carrots ? Shreddings glazed in crystallised caramel. Theyâ??d go well with the... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 29-03-07 |
| Words: | 99 | | Comments: | 10 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Key
| | She’d given him a key to her heart, a twisted, dented, little thing of brass and rust. You could... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 28-09-07 |
| Words: | 552 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Public |
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| Cracking
| | My heart was poised on rusted hinges,... | | Words: | 106 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Public |
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| Shifting away a Shifter
| | Athanox was a shape shifter. Well, it might feel like fancy stuff around here, but let me assure you that it is very mundane thing on HIS planet. In fact, you could not be more ordinary: EVERYONE... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 2861 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Shadows
| | “You are stepping on my shadow, girl.”... | | Words: | 2080 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Wave Tamer
| | She had been so happy when the telegram had come in: She'd been invited to play at the theatre of... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 2161 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Overheard in a bar
| | Remember Arne? Arne Sperisen? Tall guy with a bad scar on his face? Used to be a cattle herder. No? Well, itâ??s too bad but I suppose that means you wonâ??t be missing him then. Not that anybody... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 1746 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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| In his cup
| | There was a cloud in his cup of tea that morning and he thought for a moment that someone might have... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 22-09-08 |
| Words: | 200 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Reader |
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| No Gods Allowed
| | Three days into my camping expedition and the rains had already claimed my box of matches. I was... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 1418 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Miss Spirituality
| | She just popped up in front of my eyes, literally out of nowhere, all glittery and mischievous. You... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 27-03-07 |
| Words: | 1106 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Public |
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| Call me Honey
| | We stopped in the village for drinks and a bite to eat. The local eatery wasn't a grand thing but... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 1357 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Reader |
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| The Third Fire
| | The man in black retreated into the cool shadow of the house. What had possessed him to attend that garden party in the first place? Why couldnâ??t he just have said no? They knew he wasnâ??t the type... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 949 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Under the Bridge
| | I once left a token of paper adrift on the water, willing with all my heart the frail vessel to... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 03-06-07 |
| Words: | 151 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Tale of a Red Sea
| | They say â??red sky at night, shepperdâ??s delightâ?ť, but it was the first time ever that he was confronted to a red sea that was literally red. â??What fate is that supposed to bode for the sailors, I... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 30-03-07 |
| Words: | 737 | | Comments: | 10 | | Status: | Public |
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| Stepping out lightly
| | The pain was so great, life had become unbearable. A shroud too tightly worn, it threatened to smother me. So the decision to leave it aside for a moment was deliberate, Iâ??ll grant you that. Hence I... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 25-05-07 |
| Words: | 375 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| Service Provider
| | *******ORGINAL TEXT*********** She’d been sitting at the café terrace, toying anxiously with her club soda for twenty minutes when I finally made my move. She’d been there early of course, eager... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | crime | | Updated: | 02-12-07 |
| Words: | 1782 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Market smells
| | I love it when she walks all over the city with her butterfly wings. All the smells she brings back... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 16-06-07 |
| Words: | 276 | | Comments: | 12 | | Status: | Public |
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| Gasoline Lolly
| | â??Folly lolly, jolly bean,... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 27-03-07 |
| Words: | 567 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Second Hand
| | My favourite watch has stopped.... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 23-05-07 |
| Words: | 100 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Interview
| | When I finally got to meet my favourite writer, he had become an old man â?? and I not much younger too â?? and was stuck at home by the necessities of old age and a weak bladder. I was so thrilled to... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 542 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Another legend of the South
| | In these parts the desert winds murmur of the legend of the sand nymph Duna and how she was loved by... | | Words: | 2635 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Beach Muse
| | The pebbles are pressing hard under his knees and his elbows, as he props himself in something that might look loosely like the cobra position to the distracted yogi further down the beach. Except... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 919 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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| The end of a tale
| | People say that it wasn't just mere chance that made him a writer, a profession that can be... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-08-07 |
| Words: | 741 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Your future pension scheme
| | Judge Santoni had a problem. This was not going to be a good day; he had known that ever since he had picked up the pile of files that would be processed that morning. A few thefts, a case of domestic... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 03-06-07 |
| Words: | 1501 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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