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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Story #28 – At The Furniture Store We Kept Sitting In Chairs
At the furniture store, we kept sitting in chairs. There was a flash sale going on and we were drawn in by the signs screaming about the outrageous discounts. This Brooklyn warehouse location was closing. Apparently the landlord had sold … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, american walnut, brooklyn, fiction, furniture, gentrification, journaling, newfiction, williamsburg, writing
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Story #27 – The Back Row of Broadway
There are two back rows on Broadway. The first back row is at the back of the audience, so far from the magic of the stage the patrons who sit there need binoculars. The back row of the audience might … Continue reading
Story #26 – You forgot my birthday again. (Starstruck)
The room lights up automatically after my alarm gongs and I blink away some dream. I think you were in it. We were dancing in our little kitchen in Brooklyn. The dog was singing along. I wonder where you are … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, AI, birthday, heliosheath, nasa, short story, zamoboni
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Story #25 – The Well Dries Up
I was wandering through a vast field cluttered with wishing wells. The wells, rings of stacked dark stones with wooden roofs, stood in various states of weathered dilapidation. They were close enough together that I was unable to walk in … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, centered, faceless, faces, rats, self, selfishness, solipsism, wells, wishes, wishing
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Story #24 – Somewhere Close To Mine
When I was a young boy, my Mom and Dad sat me down in my bedroom and the room became very serious. You know a room has become serious because all the colors become muted, washed in gray. Sounds fall … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, desolation, entropy, fiction, homelessness, loneliness, mental illness, prose, short story, storyoftheday
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Story #23 – The Last Wish
It’s not what you think. The cartoons have it all wrong. You probably think there’s a bunch of velvet pillows and a hookah, but it’s not like that at all. When I enter the lamp, I’m not really anywhere. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, alladin, fiction, genie, lamp, prose, Shazam, storyoftheday, wishes
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Story #22 – the spins
On his way up the escalator, Jim looked down over the handrail and vertigo immediately seized him. Below was an endless-seeming corkscrew of steps twisting down and away from wherever he was heading. A cool wind blew by nipping at … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, circles, comedy, entropy, fiction, life story, short story, shortstory, spins, story, storyoftheday
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Story #21 – Funnybones
I should have known it wouldn’t end well, but good ideas don’t often come to me so I kinda had to go with it. Honestly, I’m surprised that no one else tried it before me; the fiscal potential was undeniable. … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, bones, comedy, death, fiction, grim reaper, grimreaper, pigs, reaper, short story
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Story #20 – sleeping dogs lie
I was in Greece. I hadn’t been to Greece since eighth grade when my father was stationed there with the foreign service. Everything looked different now that I was twenty-five. I felt as if I was in a completely new … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, cats, fiction, ghost story, ghosts, greece, horror, nightmare, nightmares
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Story #19 – heart kaboom
This car is a tiny pocket of chaos barreling though an atmosphere unperturbed by our dangerous velocity. It is a world with different rules and expectations. It is a balloon ready to pop and I am the ghost encased by … Continue reading
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Tagged cardiac, familt, family, heart attack, prose, storyoftheday
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