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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Seagulls
He’d said I was part-seagull, and he was too.
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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.”
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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?
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Liminal Life
I’m not having a bad time. It’s just a time.
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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.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Burgundy Dust
“All who witnessed her performance felt like they had become part of a strange and romantic movie.”
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Night Bus People
Someone has already been sick, somewhere. I can smell it. It’s not on me, the smell. How long do I have left? He won’t stop at every stop – he’ll ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Transference
I strained to identify flaws, anomalies, patterns in her biography; anything that would point, however subtly, to when and why her fear of elevators began.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Bone China and Velvet
He says he married a girl who is sweet and merry
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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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Three-Legged
What would’ve happened if we’d never met – only shared a glance and a smile across a packed auditorium, the fresh lacquer smell of the stage mingling with stale cigarette ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Undertow
I gotta say, the days out here are gettin’ tougher and tougher.
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