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Bryn’s Tale – Part One

Short Story I was nine when my parents were murdered. We lived in a small cottage in the English woods. My father worked at a hardware store in town and my mother spent her...

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The Golf Club – Part One

Fiction Story   I’ve never once felt comfortable at my job. Every moment is thinly veiled with the aura of desperation. It is horrid. Together my colleague Sheriff and I are nearly synonymous with...

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SHOOZ – Part One

Short Story   “I couldn’t just buy one: I had to by two pairs. They were $236 each.” I gagged. “Danny, I just choked on my toothbrush!” Was I startled more by the fact...

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You Were Born Of…

Short Story   I guess my being the only girl in the family, destined me to be a tomboy, sporting cutoff jeans with patches, slick backed braids and flat, knobby breasts. I believed back then...

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Sneaking Away

Contemporary Fiction I am an expert at sliding out of bed without disturbing whoever is sleeping in it, but this thing is ridiculous. Every time I attempt to untangle myself from the extraneous limbs,...

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Esther

Free Verse Story Poems   Esther had not gone to bed that previous evening; instead she went into the bathroom and took a whore’s bath. She washed her face and neck, brushed her teeth,...