Tag: Fiction

• The Puppets of Kudzu (2)

  7 Aug 2022

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  Franco Dellaronti was lying on his bed in a very dark space, and he was in a state of horrible depression and self-doubt because of his failure as a kudzu pie entrepreneur.

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  + Dark Humor, Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Weirdness

  + Breakfast, Coffee, Colorado, Cortez, Fiction, Government, Revolver, Sunburn

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• The Puppets of Kudzu (1)

  4 Aug 2022

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  “We’re going into business,” Franco said with asserted determination. Then he made the puppet explode with excitement — like an ice cream truck that swallowed dynamite.

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  + Dark Humor, Fiction, Might Want to be Mature, Short Stories, Weirdness

  + Business Marketing, Fiction, France, Kudzu, Pie, Puppetry

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• BumBuna O’Brien and the Evolution Oven (End)

  31 Jul 2022

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  Pierre was somewhat offended. He got up to pour himself a cup of the coffee. “You’re welcome to hunt yourself a fish or a squirrel if you want. Otherwise, it’s liverwurst. I’m sorry, but I have limited options. It’s a peaceful life, but not always easy and convenient.

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  + Chiller, Creative Writing, Fiction, Psychological, Short Stories, Uncategorized

  + Fiction, Hunting, Isolation, Liverwurst, Short Fiction, Short Story, Taxidermy, Writing

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• Reborn on the Fourth of the Flies

  29 Jul 2022

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  Kirby looked at the van parked in his driveway and nearly had to shield his eyes because it was so blaring in color and flare. “My God,” Kirby said. “Are we going to go drink and try to kill you in this thing?”

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  + Creative Writing, Dark Humor, Fiction, Short Stories, Social Comm

  + Afterlife, Burritos, Captain America, Environment, Fiction, Patriot, Uncle Sam, USA, Van

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• BumBuna O’Brien and the Evolution Oven (2)

  29 Jul 2022

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  The next morning, they docked at Rocky Point, and it was indeed a rocky point that jutted out into the sea like a stony gray elbow. There was a tall white lighthouse and a small harbor, and an odd quaint village that rested neatly at the crest of a steep…

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  + Chiller, Creative Writing, Fiction, Short Stories

  + Counseling, Fiction, Minister, Preacher, Religious Statue, Saint, Short Fiction

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• Child of the Cabbage (Ep. 8)

  19 Jul 2022

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  Farm Guy quickly got up from the table, went to the refrigerator and yanked open the door. He was pretending to look for something, but he was really trying to avoid her muddied golden eyes drilling into him for an answer. “Why would you ask me something like that…? Why…

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  + Chiller, Dystopian, Fiction, Serial Fiction

  + Cabbage, Cranberry Juice, Farming, Fiction, Hearing Voices, Oasis

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• Child of the Cabbage (Ep. 7)

  18 Jul 2022

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  Gracelyn Polk stood in front of her social studies classroom and cleared her throat as she looked down at the paper she held in her hands. She moved her head up, addressed the empty desks with her eyes and smiled. “For my report on the person I most admire, I…

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  + Chiller, Creative Writing, Dystopian, Fiction, Satirical Sci-Fi, Serial Fiction, Unsettling Drama

  + Alien Visitation, Cabbage, Fiction, Las Vegas, Parallel Universe, Price is Right, Social Studies, Speech Writing

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• Child of the Cabbage (Ep. 6)

  16 Jul 2022

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  It was the general Midwestern place found in the great picture book of the American dream, now dreamless. The homes ran in a row down each side of the boulevard, typical two-story architectural teeth erected by lost hands inside a broken jaw, darkened square windows of dusted glass looking out…

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  + Chiller, Creative Writing, Dystopian, Fiction, Serial Fiction

  + American Dream, Birth Certificate, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Consumption, Farm Guy, Fiction, Gluttony, Shopping, Starvation, Worship

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• The Doll Salon (Pt. 4)

  14 Jul 2022

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  “No, no, no,” Feldon reassured her as he patted her hand. “Nothing sexual. I just want to be close to you in my darkest time of need.”

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  + Dark Humor, Fiction, Psychological, Short Stories, Unsettling Drama

  + Fiction, Job Interview, Love, Mannequins, Psychiatry, Rejection, Writing

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• Child of the Cabbage (Ep. 5)

  13 Jul 2022

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  A bastard chill struck a prophecy of a coming autumn as Astron Puffin sat on a fallen tree deep in the woods. He was looking down at his small but thick hands. He turned them slowly before him, and it was hard to imagine that those were the same hands…

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  + Chiller, Dystopian, Fiction, Serial Fiction, Unsettling Drama

  + Abduction, Alien Visitation, Fiction, Ghosts, Jail, Zoo Escape

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