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The Simple Life

The year was 1986. There wasn't anything to do, but there was everything to do. When you're 11, life is simple. You...

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Midnight on the roof.

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Night Climbing

Midnight on the roof. The roof of one of the university buildings, to be exact. "We've made it," he says. I nod, sti...

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Forbidden

I stared up at the stars the beauty overtaking my sight, the bright lights occupied me while I was waiting. For him ...

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Rebel

Midnight On the roof. A shouldn't-be time in a shouldn't-be place, Thad pecked a shouldn't-do cigarette from the...

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Pixie Dust

Pixie dust. I didn't think it existed before now. Until I experienced it firsthand. I had floated a few feet above th...

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The angel

" what do you want, more than anything int he world?" The woman asked me. "I want my daughter back" I said. Sh...

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Angst

I really don't remember how exactly I got to this point, but I'm here, so I might as well just deal with it. "We sho...

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The city was empty.

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The Final Girl

The city was empty, like the set of a sci-fi movie when the aliens have chased everyone away or a nuclear explosion h...

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Empty

I sat on the bench in the park. Breathed in the air. Smelled the ash and dust. It was quiet here, beneath the shade ...

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In the Shadows

I've been following Soulscum for a while now. I don't know what he wants. I don't know why he's here. All I know i...

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nostalgia

You know this comforting feeling of nostalgia? It always catches me up, when I look at old pictures, just like this. ...

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Old and New Again

"I hope we never grow up," Kate said. "We will," answered Petra, "But we don't need to grow old." The memories of th...

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Photo Bullet

An old sepia photo can be a bullet. It can tear through the lineup of neurons, neatly lined up like socks on a bed. I...

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4 stories · started about 15 years ago
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My Father

I remember when I was a kid. I sat on the edge of my father's car, waiting for him come home from his walks. I would ...

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Soft Mountain

I remember the smell of wet snow on a blinding morning. Squinting through glare and steam. Battleship twigs wobble in...

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America the Bountiful

The winter of 1970 in the Bay Area was not something I ever expected to experience- especially since I was born in 19...

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1943.

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Jellyfish Pop

The air raid sirens were going off. I could tell. Even from the thousands of feet above, I could hear the wailing of ...

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The Cold Fish

1943. The year of my birth. To a very young mother. Raped by a stranger. I spent forty years believing that Tom Morra...

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Late, as in flight

1943 (19:43 to be exact, but the : had given up life years ago) 30 oC 1943 29 oC 1944 The red LEDs blinked thei...

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A Modest Birthday

The kids huddled around the tiny bundt cake, sipping juice from their plastic cups. A lone candle burned at the cen...

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Birthday bunker

We have been in the bunker for weeks now sharing a room with me and my five brothers. Its hard to imagine our life be...

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these last little fires

If I were a scientist I would invent a drug, which could bring me back to all of the feelings I was able to experienc...

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Say 'Aaah'

Friday is supposed to be a day to look forward to - TGIF, right? Sammy had been dreading Friday all week because he ...

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Closer

“The entire shell is Chronium. That shields the op…” “You mean chrome. Chromium?” “Ahem. Crow NEE Uhm. Chronium. As...

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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

The visitor asked, "Can you write a story without a prompt?" "I don't know," said the writer. "I've never tried." "...

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Is Anyone There.

She was walking down the sidewalk in the downtown area of Seattle when she noticed a pile of white blankets and other...

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The birds

They would never stop. She used to love the sight of birds on a rooftop, electric wires, even clotheslines. She used...

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Wallside Man

Disappeared into the cityscape, hiding unintentionally, friend to only the birds, for they are the only ones who wi...

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