| Separation Anxiety
| | The luscious lips of Sela, my boss – Evil Mistress of Subregional Product Development, Queen Bitch of the Seventh Floor – were positioned three inches from the back of my head. Quotas unfulfilled.... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | absurd | | Updated: | 05-04-08 |
| Words: | 3595 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Home Improvement
| | Carol, my first wife, was addicted to home improvement shows. After my transfer to Louisiana we bought a rundown Victorian house near the Gulf. It was like an artist discovering canvas. She was soon... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 31-03-08 |
| Words: | 633 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Reader |
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| The Dukester's Last Ride
| | "Are we there yet?" Sarah glared at me, squinting against the early morning sun. The door panel upholstery was stamped into her right cheek. "Hell no." "Then what'd you stop for?" "Look out your... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 29-02-08 |
| Words: | 1195 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Idiot Savant
| | Augie's mother was screaming, not that it made nevermind to Augie, who went on munching his peanut... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 19-01-08 |
| Words: | 245 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Speed Demon
| | "Faster, Mikey. Faster!"... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 11-01-08 |
| Words: | 56 | | Comments: | 9 | | Status: | Public |
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| Unfair Advantage
| | Timmy started it with chewed paper and a soda straw. Mikey answered with a pen tube. Timmy stuck... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 11-01-08 |
| Words: | 55 | | Comments: | 12 | | Status: | Public |
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| Jingle Bells
| | Jingle Bells Doris Kaminski stood in her front yard in her green housecoat and slippers. Puffs of steam added emphasis to her words as she screamed at the roof. Passers-by might assume her words were... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | Christmas | | Updated: | 18-12-07 |
| Words: | 695 | | Comments: | 12 | | Status: | Public |
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| Limit of Love
| | I look at your withered body and cringe at the smell of your slack-mouthed snores. You’re the... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 04-11-07 |
| Words: | 152 | | Comments: | 11 | | Status: | Public |
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| Overreaction
| | Doll-baby called.... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 29-10-07 |
| Words: | 100 | | Comments: | 11 | | Status: | Public |
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| Under No Circumstances
| | Don't you do it, Jimmy. Don't you dare do it.... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 24-10-07 |
| Words: | 99 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Public |
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| Pablo's Revenge
| | People on the street call him ‘The Spaniard.”... | | Flash Fiction | | Updated: | 14-10-07 |
| Words: | 200 | | Comments: | 16 | | Status: | Public |
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| Backing Out
| | "Fuck off, Kanarski."... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | flash | | Updated: | 05-10-07 |
| Words: | 197 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Retard's Guide to Puberty and IEDs
| | I ??Carly?? ??Yeah... what?? ??You've got the nicest shoulder blades I??ve ever seen.? She turned and looked at me like I was retarded. ??Shut up, Ronnie." As she looked away, I... | | Words: | 5755 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Doomed to Repeat
| | A large cast-iron Swastika juts from a cardboard box of old cans, iron pipe and other pieces of metal about to be recycled for the latest war. The man notices that it has caught the eye of his son.... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | political | | Updated: | 04-07-07 |
| Words: | 999 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Reverend Savage at the Courthouse
| | In the Reverend Darren Savage's view, he and his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had something in common: a father that could be a major pain in the ass. "Darren, I understand where you're coming from."... | | Words: | 1119 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Sanctuary
| | My brain was hardwired to the highway after three hours of smooth flat road with the post-dawn sun throwing crazy long shadows from every pole, tree and rock. Something on the road up ahead.... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | Fiction | | Updated: | 26-05-07 |
| Words: | 2194 | | Comments: | 5 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Dick Cheney and Me
| | Hell yes, I met Dick Cheney. It was back when he first hired on with Halliburton. Of course, I didn't know he was somebody. He was just another asshole in a dark blue suit as far as I could... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | humor | | Updated: | 26-05-07 |
| Words: | 3025 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Reader |
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| A Retard's Guide to Love, Puberty and I.E.D.s
| | I ??Carly?? ??Yeah... what?? ??You've got the nicest shoulder blades I??ve ever seen.? She turned and looked at me like I was retarded. ??Shut up, Ronnie." But as she looked away, I... | | Words: | 6114 | | Comments: | 9 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Round the Corner, Sally!
| | Sally??s earliest memory is of this place. This room, snug and cozy but masculine - what she imagined the inside of an old sailing ship must be. It was full of Grandpa??s treasures, keepsakes passed... | | Words: | 1019 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Her Hand in Marriage
| | Frank had rehearsed the scene in his mind a thousand times. It'd be messy. Dierdre would be a basket... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 17-04-07 |
| Words: | 193 | | Comments: | 9 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Luli and Mercedes
| | Mercedes cleared her throat and spat on the sidewalk as soon as she got off the bus. Luli, already unfurling her umbrella against the mid-morning sun, did a little dance to avoid it. "Ay,... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 17-04-07 |
| Words: | 454 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Public |
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| Motherhood
| | Cassie fingered the blade of her knife, watching the moon??s reflection in the nickel-plating. So smooth ?? so sharp. She dragged her thumb across the honed edge and had to fight an urge to cut. To part... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | Family | | Updated: | 17-04-07 |
| Words: | 488 | | Comments: | 8 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Little Wing
| | I went with Reese and his girl to the cemetery. His girlfriends tend to be round and reminiscent of... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | flash | | Updated: | 17-04-07 |
| Words: | 216 | | Comments: | 10 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Symphorophilia
| | I ??Carly?? ??What.? ??You got the nicest shoulder blades I??ve ever seen.? She turned and looked at me like I was retarded. ??Shut up, Ronnie." But as she looked away I could see that her cheek... | | Words: | 5913 | | Comments: | 14 | | Status: | Reader |
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| While The City Reeks
| | My partner and I were cruising restaurant row when we got the call. ??All units, 10-77 in progress, proceed to 327 West 46th.? I hit the flashers. ??Unit 54 responding, one block away, we're on it.?... | | Words: | 526 | | Comments: | 10 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Angel of the Gulf Stream
| | Somewhere out in the Gulf Stream, Carl and Craig Jensen wanted to die. The beefy brothers from White Bear Lake, Minnesota had traded their fishing gear for fistfuls of the portside railing of the... | | Words: | 2140 | | Comments: | 7 | | Status: | Reader |
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| A Common Phobia
| | Jay was halfway through the sports section. He switched to help-wanted as Dee walked in. A female wrist decorated with an unfastened bracelet appeared before his eyes. ??You following up on yesterday's... | | Flash Fiction | | Genre: | weird | | Updated: | 09-02-07 |
| Words: | 377 | | Comments: | 14 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Red Tide
| | Windblown sand covered the aging road, smoothing cracks and potholes like a layer of makeup on a bad complexion. Unpunished by car or truck, renegade strands of goat's foot vine jaywalked across... | | Words: | 3464 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Reader |
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