Tag: Short Fiction

• Deities of Decision

  13 Feb 2024

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  A black building with windows of orange light played sentinel over a dark blue river at dusk in a city I did not know. It may have been Riga, Latvia or Baku, Azerbaijan or maybe even Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There were other buildings, old buildings of red and sand-colored brick defaced…

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  + Astrophysics, Culture, Death and Life, Psychological, Religion, Social Comm

  + Fiction, Religion, Short Fiction, Writing

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• The Baker

  12 Feb 2024

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  The murals of human clouds. Bakers in bakeries thinking of what it would be like to not have to wake up so early. What would it be like not to have to press out into the day when the sun has barely begun to breathe, and the world is painted…

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  + Creative Writing, Ethereal, Love Stories, Spillage, Writing

  + Baking, Love, Short Fiction, Writing

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• The Escape

  6 Jul 2023

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  In the serpentine maw of a sun fall begging the good ropes of a life gone wrong fray and bow to snap, photo frames turned down on a table, a guilt like fire, someone stomping in the hallway, Jakob Moo with a knife tip pressed against his throat, a desperate…

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  + Creative Writing, Darkness, Flash, Haunted Light, Psychological, Writing

  + Creative Writing, Escape, Flash, Short Fiction, Writing

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• The Electric Pancake House

  28 Jun 2023

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  In the warbled dawn of a coming hot summer day the crypto man wiles away in a labyrinth of enigma. The staircase to the pancake house was long and winding. He burst through and there were the smells of syrup and broiling butter. It was the essence of Isis, the…

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  + Astrophysics, Creative Writing, Ethereal, Flash, Short Stories, Space

  + Breakfast, Coffee, Magic, Pancakes, Short Fiction, Short Story, Tom Petty

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• The Crashing Life

  27 Jun 2023

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  It was a blue-gray evening dipped in pink and orange when Simon Waterbones drove his car into a KFC restaurant in downtown Amarillo, Texas. There was a mess of broken glass, toppled tables, spilled chicken and drinks. He stepped out into a cloud of dust, coughed, brushed himself off. “Shit.…

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  + Fiction, Reflective Light, Sea of Sadness, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Time Machine, Writing

  + Amarillo, Fiction, KFC, Mental Illness, Newspaper, Short Fiction, Short Story

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