Fiction
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Fiction: “HoH”, Featuring Image: “Haze”
HOH You liked her as soon as you first heard her speak while both of you were inside the elevator on your way to the fifth floor – she with that distinct, Michelle-Pfeiffer-sultry voice that coos and mesmerizes the Fabulous Baker Boys while she sings on top of the piano. You were meant to…
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Fiction: “How to Time Travel”, Featuring Image: “Hedy Lamar”
“How to Time Travel” Google “YouTube.” Revisit clips of shows from ABC’s TGIF lineup, along with Nickelodeon cartoons if there’s time. Make time. Do this periodically, every weekend, for a span of five years. Mourn when you’ve found out your favorite clips have been taken down for violating copyright infringement laws. You dry your…
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Fiction: “All the Way to New York”, Featuring Image: “Through Rose-Colored Glasses”
All the Way To New York She was too young to go to New York with dad, her mom had told her. Besides this was a business trip. It would be boring for little girls. But she could come to the airport and kiss him goodbye. On the ride home she stretched out in the…
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Fiction: “The Other Day”, Featuring Image: “Sink on Farm”
The Other Day The other day– bear in mind that when I say the other day I am referencing any day between the present and my birth, I was at the Powell Muni station coming home with my date. Well, technically speaking, it wasn’t the other day, but the other night. Also while we are…
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Fiction: “The Clipboard”, Featuring Image: “Macrobiotic”
The Clipboard Scott is naked. He is stretched out in the hospital bed on the 5th Floor of San Francisco General Hospital. A small blanket covers his body from the waist down. He can’t get comfortable. Every time he attempts to lie on his side, the muscle bound and very serious young man in…
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Fiction: “Waning Crescent”, Featuring Image: “Surfer”
Waning Crescent He leaned against the wall, long legs crossed at the ankles. A cigarette dangled from his hand, smoke leaking from his lips in a slow, swirling haze. His hair, obsidian-black, rose in well-oiled spikes from the crown of his head. The sharp lapels of his jacket folded back across his chest, revealing a…
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Fiction Piece: “Going to Pot”, Featuring Image: “Sunflower”
GOING TO POT Not many trees grew in the town where I grew up. My family lived on a barrier island off the coast of South Jersey. If you dug in the ground to any depth, you quickly hit salt water. But that didn’t stop residents from planting flowers. My grandmother loved to plant petunias,…
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Fiction Piece: “The Flesh of the Father”, Featuring Image: “The Sunset”
Flesh of the Father “Oh, thank you. Is my breath bad?” my Father Ari asked. “No, it’s just the thing I do when I am having one,” said my Uncle Zeb. I watched the transaction as if it was in slow motion. My father, a devout vegan, accepted not any Altoid but an Altoid from…
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Fiction Piece: “Shortcut”, Featuring Image: “Foggy Hill”
Shortcut Carol looked up at the man walking beside her. “You know, you really don’t have to escort me back to my grandmother’s house,” she said. “It’s just a two mile stroll along an open road. All I needed was to borrow a flashlight.” The man kept his eyes trained ahead. “Apparently Betty thought otherwise,”…
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Fiction Piece:”Let The Past Remind Us” Featuring Image: “Night to Remember”
Let the Past Remind Us Written By: Jeff Kaliss About the Author: Jeff Kaliss has been studying creative writing and music at City College following the completion of an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. At City, he’s appeared in Forum in various genres, read at Lit Night, and hosted the Poetry…
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