Stories
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Micro-Fiction Corner: The Legend of Slappy Joe
Nobody agreed on what Slappy Joe actually was. The oldest version made him a cafeteria cook fired for serving meat of uncertain origin. Another claimed he was a student who ate one-too-many sloppy joes on a dare and vanished on the way to the toilet. By the time the story reached the current class, he…
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A Heavy Cross to Bear – Choosing The Right Cross Tattoo
The cross. It is the most ancient and universal symbol, which in pre-erudite cultures often symbolized a duality. Associated with the…
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The Next Now
Though he swore to himself that he would never ever in a million years be caught dead doing it again, Clayton Jacobson wound up working late. Nearly four and a half hours past his quitting time, according to the clock, whose disinterested face stared down upon him from its lofty perch above the office door.…
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Songs As Stories: Stars Go Blue
It was a secret place, a quarter acre of Eden abandoned and erased from the mind of mankind the instant the original sin was committed, and I had…
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Of Air Returned
I burned my soul to ash but the pain paled in comparison to the terror that struck my heart like a match, anticipating her arrival and the…
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The Web and the Too Close Crescent Moon
I’m looking up at this crescent moon and it’s too big, like I can almost reach out and touch it…but my arms won’t move. In fact, I can’t move my body…
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One Last Thing, Before I Go
My loved ones gather at my wake and raise a parting glass to wish me safe passage on my unearthly travels and as I feel myself being pulled away…
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They Come At Night
They come at night during the Hour of the Wolf, that gap between night and dawn when most people perish, when the sleepless are haunted…
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Tiny Stories: The Meddler
Some women were born to lead, others to follow, but Faith discovered she wasn’t a woman at all. She was, in fact, a Fatum, a supernatural…