A story of toughening up and the residue of the Holocaust. ‘When my eyes open again my face is in a girl’s lap and all I see are long, skinny ...
A painful departure, with no turning back. ‘This is the fingertip laid on the edge of what if.’
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Hey, you.
Someone has balled the clouds and thrown them into one corner of the sky—the clouds getting together up there, and moving this way.
Someone has sharpened the trees and jammed ...
In the face of death, a man thinks of an ingenious way for life to continue.
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“What do you do when your world shrinks? I go to the river.” Today’s #FlashFriday piece is “Hope Pier is a Real Place” by Tavia Allan. ...
“When you are with people the first drink of the day needs to be blessed.” Today’s #FlashFriday piece is “When You Are with People” by Colin Gee. ...
“It was there, at the top of the hill, that I came across the 42 men.” Today’s #FlashFriday piece is “42 Men at a Cemetery” by Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis. ...
I can share this with you – you’ve been there – immersed in her, tasted her bitter dampness.
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I realize a lioness is circling me. She crouches and we lock eyes.
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A father and daughter witness the underlying details of the film ‘Sophie’s Choice’
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I pick up my lover and we drive to the abandoned ice cream shop, pull around behind it.
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The smell of hospitals makes me sick, but I came because I thought you’d want to know
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The scent of leather shoes and the anatomy of a breakup
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A woman returns to the past and is filled with sounds and sensations
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A small girl is coaxed to speak again
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Bartleby and Marty launch a couch company.
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For a few seconds, I’m suspended in shadowless green. Then suddenly I’m in a field, in a squall, on the edge of a stand of tall spruces. Their icy branches ...
When wisecracking mini-Jesus turns up in a Mason jar, and holds his own.
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Inspired by the author’s old hairdresser who was unable to return to Poland each Christmastime.
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What happens when a party goes wrong?
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