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Story #45 – A little birdy told me
The backyard looked like another planet. A heavy blanket of snow magnified the cold and reflected the ineffectual winter sun. Ben squinted at the cold vista out his kitchen window while he scoured the burnt cheese from the bottom of … Continue reading
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Story #44 – Flying in his Dreams
Before he goes to bed, David must do his stretches. He must do the exercises which will prepare him for a night sleep which is proper and good. He is not the young man he once was, and sometimes Sleep … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, bedtime, cats, dogs, ducks, fiction, getting older, lucid dreaming, pets, short story, sleepy, storyoftheday
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Story #43 – The Ride Of Your Life / Staying in line
The voice is strangely metallic, androgynous. It’s oscillating cadence is almost hypnotic. “You’re in for the ride of your life! You’ve never seen anything like it. You’ll never be the same!” When you hear it, you can imagine a young … Continue reading
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Story #42 – Strays
1 The cats who live in the vacant lot behind the gas station were already trotting out from behind the various scraggly bushes and shrubs. Angela rolled down the window of her beat-up Chevy as she pulled up and inhaled … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, cat lady, catlady, cats, fiction, gas station, magical realism, raccoons, short story, storyoftheday, strange
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Story #41 – Woke Pissing Contest /or/ More Woke Than Most
Let me start this off by saying that we were both drunk, but he was waaaaay drunker than me. We were going back and forth, me and Trevon, for over an hour: “I NEVER let any of my white friends … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, ada Limón, blm, cultural appropriation, fiction, gentrification, pissing contest, poetry, prose, short story, storyoftheday, white privilege, woke, wokeness
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Story #39 – Dead Endy
The afternoon was warm and sunny. The sleek glass skin of the buildings reflected the sparse cumulus clouds grazing like fluffy white buffalo in the azure. Along the thin seam where one building would meet the sky, clouds pulled apart … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, corporate, dayjob, fiction, grind, horror, horrorstory, newfiction, nyc, shortstory
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Story # 38 – The Weird Thing
Uncle Gene was just coming back from the bar with a fresh round of beers. he was wearing a blue shirt with red flowers on it that I had gotten him when I went to Hawaii to study the medicinal … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, addiction, fiction, heroin, pigs, prose, short story, storyoftheday, wolves
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Story #37 – Mean Time
Andy has memorized twenty-seven knots. He can easily show you the difference between a davy knot and a double turtle. He knows ten different hitch knots as well as various bends, slings, and splices. He started learning them when he … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, entropy, fiction, gentrification, lake eerie, Ohio, poetry, prose, real estate, short story, storyoftheday
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Story #36 – she disappeared into herself
The building was an old dentist or funeral home. We figured this out because as we were loading in our amps and guitars and drums from the van we passed through an area with tiled floors and an adjacent room … Continue reading
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Tagged 100stories, diy, fiction, music, musician, newfiction, prose, short story, story, storyoftheday, touring
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