Fiction
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The Last Stand by Shelly Davis
Brenda looked forward into the mirror with all of her vigor and intensity. Apparently, she possessed her own personal self bias because the convoluted figure standing before was not what she thought she resembled. This past year had been the year which defined her life. She had been diagnosed with ALS and subsequently entered into…
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Discarded, by Chaz Anderson
His right hand strums out a complicated rhythm while his left dances up and down the neck, forming complex shapes. A low hum rumbles up from his throat, a counter-melody to the throbbing voice of the guitar. Eyes closed, he sits cross-legged on the moist grass, rocking back and forth, trying to give birth to…
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Gray Rock by Seth Luther
Grandma likes her rock garden to be neat and orderly. She doesn’t have to water it or have it mowed, and those pesky neighborhood kids can’t run and play all over it. A trip and fall and a skinned knee will teach them that. The kids like to take a single gray rock from the…
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Right on the Money: One Dollar Stories by Jessica Garrison
Right on the Money: One Dollar Stories by Jessica Garrison by Howard Brad Halverson We met at bar in LA. She was introduced to me because I was caught conversating about Georges Bataille the night before, the hostess of the party being so taken aback by this, exclaiming in shock “someone is talking about books…
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It Takes One to Solitaire
By Ellie MacBride | It’s a Tuesday. I only know this because my cat knocked over a glass of water on my nightstand, waking me from a dream in which I ate six bacon cheeseburgers before walking a red carpet at some Jewish Film Festival. I’m not Jewish. I disregard the diverging rivers of stale…
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“These Words Are For You” by Aria Backe
These Words Are For You by Aria Backe a public service blog These words are for you, no matter who you are, if you are reading this with your own eyes these words are yours. Unless you’re blind, no blindies allowed. What are you going to do with this vast inheritance of thought? You’re probably…
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