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Cage [Flash Fiction] 24 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
The motorcycle gang was at it again. Cage rolled over, belly to back. He listened to the mindless, formless screams coming from the highway, wordless whooping shouts between men playing chicken or rac...
Death Outside Damascus 22 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
Death is an old woman today. Her back is bent, her mouth wide and gasping in the thin air. She has no teeth to gnash in frustration. Instead, her lips smack dryly against one another, seeped of moistu...
Quickie #3 – Uphill 18 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
She’d never experienced a more beautiful morning than the one on which her car broke down, her cellphone ran out of battery, and her period started while she was on the highway, waiting for the AAA pe...
Quickie #2 18 Aug 2013 | 04:39 am
He said: “It very quickly becomes Microsoft.” Across the aisle, baseball cap covering bald spot, he said this to someone I couldn’t see. The train’s current was choppy today, passing broken houses and...
Quickie #1 16 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
I had my teacher forward a photograph of a painter’s handwriting to a writer I’m reading. I hope that if she sees it, she will think well of me for reading so attentively. This has always been my stra...
Wendy’s Call [Flash Fiction] 4 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
Another call, another disappointment. Wendy put down the portable phone with the numbers that were all rubbed off from the rubber buttons and sighed. She was sixty-seven, almost, and it was time for a...
Podium 18 Jul 2013 | 09:36 am
He read from the podium like a man possessed by two demons. One, his own personal demon, was with him wherever he went, living inside him, pressed between his heart and his ribcage. This demon was pur...
Frivolicking, a writers’ retreat 15 Jul 2013 | 08:08 am
Swamping a small space inside an inn that is surely not in Surrey despite its name are several dozen frozen faces, dripping in the heat lamps. Masked in social-butterfly expressions, they eat brownies...
Welcome, Walk Free 14 Jul 2013 | 06:22 pm
I arrive in the US at six AM and stand in the customs and passport line to find the first news greeting me is CNN, playing on the television set that hangs on a column and that, in my past experience,...
Found Poetry – Big Boggle 13 Jul 2013 | 01:30 am
My mother and I often play Big Boggle (5X5 tiles, not 4X4), which, for those who don’t know, is a word game in which you have a limited amount of time and you have to write down as many words as possi...
