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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Rain Spider
Rain spiders don’t like rain. That is why they come inside.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Krakatoa Breakfast
Wildwood couldn’t be much farther. After a few minutes a sign informed him that their exit was coming up, then they were at the junction, and he was standing on ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Long Shift
This night had been going on for years. She blew into her cupped hands, steam mingling with the smoke still in her lungs. It was a long shift. But it ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
His
You wake up, panting. An ache has settled in the small of your back and the pressure is spreading. You hiss to get breath out of your lungs. The sheets ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Tutee
Sharon was usually waiting for me outside her front door. She said the sound of the doorbell woke her dad up. It was a comfort that she was as I ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Home Sweet Home
Roger and Marie had argued many times over whether they had a right – and by right they were referring to a moral right – to apply for the housing ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Quiz Night
We go to a pub quiz every Wednesday night, my wife Mel and me. We go with our friends Simon and Ginny. Ginny is Mel’s best friend. They’ve known each ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A Dictionary of Our Time in the Wild
ADDER
I felt the bite in the region of Staple Oak Fell. Searing pain flooded the muscle of my left calf. Looking down, I could see the black-and-silver tail of the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Best,
Part I
Denver had found himself too old rather suddenly. As if his body aged without him knowing.
It took him a while to notice. It wasn’t the gray hair; that had ...
Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday
Linger Generously
Be Kind, Rewind
I stare at the scuffed lino of the corridor, listening to the fading rustle of his jacket as he makes his way downstairs. When he pulls the main ...
Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Search for Slate
“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.” Guy Debord
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Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday
FIRST BUNDLE OF DOCUMENTS (from THE OLIVE DRAB FOOTLOCKER)
Photo by Angie Chung.
Is it turtles all the way down?
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The supreme principle is the monad. The monad is also a second principle, along with the dyad. The ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Brock Turley Was in Westerns
In the summer of my second year of university, I was working in the kind of dingy, backstreet pub that seemed to consider the fact of being dingy and backstreet ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Frequent Flyer
Tea and travel, a privileged friend gives up both.
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Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday
LE SPLEEN DE BARCELONA
Bibliophiles and book thieves.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Delicate Flower
What we can sense when it is quiet.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Violence
A hangover leads to a revelation
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Loosies
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Our Boy
A night out
About ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
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