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The Blue
“You sure you want to do this? I can wait,” Jack glances over at her, and the hunger in his brown eyes betrays him.“I’ll be fine,” Natalie swallows bile rising in her throat and throws a half-hearted...
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Heuristic
My dear, Trevor. My obedient, idiotic, heuristic son, Trevor. You lived my dying words for all they were worth. And what were they worth? A fastpass to our reunion.“Life is an experiment,” I said. “Be...
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Abandonment Issues
We stopped across the street from the building and got out of the basic white rental car, economy-sized, like my budget. I remembered what an Arizona July was like when my hand touched the chrome door...
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Live a Great Story
Dakota Foreman faced the bright orange brick wall, staring at the eye-level sign. Underneath the words LIVE A GREAT STORY would be an ironic place to die, but that is what she thought she might do.The...
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Half Horse
“Cygnus 731 preparing for contact.”The ship’s voice is metallic and feminine. The crew calls her Marta, a common North American name after the collapse of the Great Wall between the United States and...
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A Beautiful Place
There are dead things in the whirlpool. On hot summer days you can smell the remains of fish and birds and other victims of the river rotting in the sun.Today is one of those days. The sun has just...
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Where the Wild Went
Flames lick at the leaves. Burning captured in photos. The pictures flash over the stage, stretched into obscurity, but Pike knows them. A forest eaten by fire, frame after frame. Light pools and melts...
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The Fortunate Beasts
Heights aren’t really my thing, so I only look down briefly. Just enough to get the gist. Some crazy motherfucker, spinning in circles, riding his bike on the walls. A blur that defies both gravity and...
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The Dictator's Lemonade
The Dictator was exiled to a small island in the Pacific, somewhere between Hawaii and Australia. The parallels to a famous, short, French dictator were obvious. But The Dictator, Our Dictator, stopped...
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The Secrets of Bayou Galafete
Meg needed money. She had graduated in the spring with a degree in journalism, and though she had been on more than a dozen interviews, stiff competition was making it tough to land even an entry-level...
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River in Time
The river calls and I heed Her, my addiction. Once, a human load of clothes set to life-or-death. The spillway ravages my teenage body. I fight, but can’t win; sweet surrender. Then my hand bumps a...
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Red Sky at Morning
Carey stared at me from the corner of the room, chiding me for reading (The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, which I never finished). I ignored her while she paged through my parents’ coffee table...
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I Am the Leprechaun
Wedding anniversaries are challenging for anyone, but perhaps more so for my wife and I. We have been married since 1940, and what can you buy for a woman who literally has everything she wants? I...
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Stranger in Paradise
"Damn dark glass. I was convinced these were at least half full." Tom sighed and replaced the bottles carefully in his pack. He looked down at me, concern all over his face. "I'll go get a new one from...
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The Apartment
The rickety elevator reached the ground floor with a noise reminiscent of the carriages on the train station. Afra stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the eleventh floor. The elevator...
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American Terror
Vincent is breaking up with Jack.He sits in the car, staring at the green doors of his high school. Jack will be done with track practice at 6:30 PM, and Vincent will drive him home. Jack will blabber...
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Last Christmas in the Desert
It was a damn beautiful sight, being home, Theodore Saunders and the rest of The Cosmic Cowboy Gang, home for the holidays, top of the charts to happiness, with a bullet. Christmas in the desert was...
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Election Day
My nostrils register the stranger before my eyeballs get a chance. The morning breeze, warm for early November, wafts a musky scent, along with a faint hint of woodsmoke, across the mountaintop. My...
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The Women of Harper House
Her mother would tell you she’d never been good at climbing; a false hope. At twelve years, Wren Harper mastered ascending the ancient white poplar just beyond the garden gate of the Harper estate.She...
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All Alone at the End of McNiven Rd
Ancaster ladies don't wear black. For funerals they have suits of midnight blue and charcoal grey. Ancaster ladies prefer crimson and gold for the holiday season (Christmas is a big deal for mother and...
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Offers My Hand
Mother always said I was destined to be married. I wish she could be here to meet you, I know she would have approved. A proper English gentlemen. I lace my fingers in yours and stare at the simple...
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The Catoptromancer
I took a deep breath and picked up his phone. You have to do this, I said to myself.My husband was watching a 70's action flick in our living room. It looked grainy and washed out on the flatscreen. I...
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Megan’s Journey Through the Labyrinth
She’d searched for Ford that day and met Benedikt instead; at the end of the afternoon they shook hands…—It was nice meeting you—…but it didn’t end as Megan had hoped, because the following week she...
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Lobsang
A carpet may be spread for anyone:spread for the Buddha bathed in blood,and also for the weaverof the same blood-stained carpet.- "Every town is a hometown, all people are kin," SukirtharaniLobsang was...
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Bubble
“Good match.” Amy walked from her baseline to the net. She took Riley’s hand and shook it. She was hot and sweaty, her skin a little rough from gripping a racket every day. Only ten years Riley’s...
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