Peruse these miniature tales and flashes of inspiration that may serve as beloved household trinkets with the passage of time.
What he had to live for
“Sun can’t kill me any faster than the rain,” he added, lifting his hand to shield his…
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Self-Dispatching
If you are considering a long-distance UPS, consider allowing yourself to be palletized.
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Urban Cyberpunk Adventure: Navigating a World of Surveillance and Struggle
A trip to the drugstore could prove lethal.
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Grey Walls
Walking into the monument was like wading through elephant grass that had been booby trapped. Somewhere nearby,…
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Facial Dysmorphia
One million microbes had been injected, but in the morning, Faria’s face sagged, and she knew it…
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Crime happens in all seasons
Crime happens in all seasons, but in the winter, if it’s cold enough, I might not smell…
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Story Time Sunday #64
250 words or less beginning with the sentence…Everything was going great, and then the dragons appeared. What…
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Naïve Taker
“Try your best to keep breathing,” she said.
“I’ve been doing that all day.” His smile had…
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Death, Be Our Shore Leave
“Getting slayed on foreign soil won’t save our homeland,” Callihan says.
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Love Criminal
I tried to think of what my mother always said before the heat stroke: “Beauty is nothing…
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Juke Joint
I could never resist neon. God, her tube top glows, and I’ve got a few spare coins…
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Story Time Sunday #63
Dear Readers, It’s been too long since I’ve shared a story on Sunday, so I thought I’d…
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Story Time Sunday #62
My delightful daughter created a dragonfly for me and tasked me to write about it. The thing…
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Everybody Underestimates It
I love the challenge of telling a tale in 100 words or less. This month’s photo image…
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Liftie Life
Patchwork snow means it’s the last lift. As Head Liftie, I have the privilege of being the…
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A Stroke of Luck
My clever, young creative writers wanted to focus on characters, and so together we set up a…
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Story Time Sunday #61
If my soul were cut into horecruxes (HP fans get it), one of the pieces would most…
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