Stories
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Curate’s Egg
During a breakfast with a bishop, a curate serves peculiar eggs embodying the parish’s needs. The meal reflects both nostalgia and imperfection, highlighting the struggles of community and leadership.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: I Love You With Modernity
A woman notices her husband’s behavioral changes due to software updates meant for improvement, but soon realizes she misses his flaws. As optimizations continue, her individuality risks being eliminated.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: The Scrapes You Get Into
Every evening the Fuhad inspected his daughter’s knees. The ritual began with ordinary childhood injuries, but by autumn the scrapes had become too precise to dismiss.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Coo-coo Crazy, Reality Is Hazy
Amandala discovers her cuckoo clock alters reality, revealing memories of a life she never lived, as discrepancies emerge around her. Ultimately, the clock seeks to correct her solitary existence.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: One Glistening Eye In The Dark
A father notices a mysterious eye watching his daughter from the closet, revealing that the creature replaces her with alternate versions during her life’s changes, suggesting a disturbing connection between them.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Sorry For The Theatrics
The post reflects a haunting experience, illustrating how a ghost interacts with a family, borrowing life through their kindness while maintaining boundaries that signal its presence and ensure it remains dead.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Mom And Pop Music Shop
A customer buys a record that playbacks his future, revealing troubling events. After desperate attempts to destroy it, he finds himself trapped in a cycle, confronted by the music shop owners.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Electric Juju
The electrician found the third bundle behind a kitchen panel: red thread, gray feathers, copper wire, and a small bone warm enough to discolor the plaster. By the ninth house, he knew exactly where to look. Every bundle occupied the north wall of a kitchen, and every homeowner had lived on the street longer than…
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Micro-Fiction Corner: All Righty, Aphrodite
You can always tell when winter’s officially dead in New York. The city streets are suddenly chock-a-block with flea markets. Seriously, they…
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Micro-Fiction Corner: To Sow, Perchance To Reap
The world is full of folks who appreciate nature and the great outdoors to the point of creating a mental happy place of some…