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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Ring
If I call you, you’ll say, hello, I’ll say, hi mum, it’s me, Catherine, then you’ll hang up. Continue Reading Ring
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Mine
Would a more loving partner have pieced the clues together? Should I have known? It seemed so obvious now. Continue Reading Mine
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Tonantzín Coatlaxopeuh
An aspiring poet sat with me in Captain Quackenbush’s Intergalactic Dessert Co. and Espresso Café on Guadalupe Street. Continue Reading Tonantzín Coatlaxopeuh
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Over the Western Peak
One day, he says, he’ll ride over the top of the western peak and never come back. Continue Reading Over the Western Peak
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Close To Me
For weeks, even months, after the gig, he remembered that feeling, could cling to it every now and then even as it faded or slipped from his grasp. He would ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
The Satirist
“Are you the satirist?” I said,
“I certainly am not. I don’t think I’ve ever even met a satirist.” Continue Reading The Satirist
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Tears of the Unholy
I’ve tried to squelch that terror, to chase it deep inside me so that the watchers might turn away, but the moment of the bargain always wrenches it forth again. ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Them next door
“Sometimes you think you know people but you don’t.” Continue Reading Them next door
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Sorrow
“The shape of her grew smaller and smaller until she was only a speck at the edge of the road.” Continue Reading Sorrow
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Diamond Studs
“I always wanted to build a house beside the lake with her. It would’ve been a place where we could grow old and fat together and be buried in the ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental
Litro #182: Experimental – Lumen Odyssey
Space does not exist.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Big Boxes and Bigger Rooms
Do you think that time makes it harder to feel, or harder to pretend you’re not? Continue Reading Big Boxes and Bigger Rooms
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Buoyancy
“And these things that happen to us. They don’t just live in the past. They echo.” Continue Reading Buoyancy
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Melusine experiment: lab notes [fragment]
Puddle onto concrete and thrashing, weaker-weaker before subsiding to limp stillness. Continue Reading Melusine experiment: lab notes
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Wife
I liked Ben enough. I didn’t love him; I could never love someone so whole. Continue Reading The Wife
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Bus Driver
He drives a bus, he lives above a shop, he drinks cheap wine, and he is now alone. Continue Reading The Bus Driver
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Prepare to be Amazed
His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn. Continue Reading Prepare to be Amazed
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Liminal Life
I’m not having a bad time. It’s just a time. Continue Reading Liminal Life
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Bad Between Us
Our evenings are filled with hospital dramas and 10:00pm bedtimes and getting irritated when one of us reads with the light on, the lamp glowing yellow in the room like ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Window, Amsterdam
He knows he is searching for something that is no longer there. Continue Reading Window, Amsterdam
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