Stories
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Business Idea Problems
“I have a lot of business ideas. The problem is the police.” That was how the pitch began. The investor across the café table lowered his coffee and considered leaving, but curiosity won over. The entrepreneur opened a folder labeled OPPORTUNITIES and slid over several neatly typed proposals. None of them were illegal exactly. They…
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Micro-Fiction Corner: You Are My Pencil and I Am Your Paper
The note appeared on the kitchen table in handwriting neither of them recognized. You are my pencil and I am your paper. They blamed each other at first. One accused the other of trying to be romantic after an argument; the other denied it with enough irritation to make romance unlikely. They crumpled the note,…
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Micro-Fiction Corner: The Cheap Trick of Expensive Love
The first gift was a watch that cost more than the rent. It arrived after an argument about missed dinners, unanswered messages, and the strange way one person could make another feel abandoned while technically remaining in the relationship. The box was lined with velvet, the face set with tiny diamonds, and the card said,…
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Ya Gotta Die Before You Live
A man takes a phrase completely literally and idiotically implements it in a wrong and absurd way.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: The Intelligent and the Stupid
A story about what labels cost a relationship over decades, and not about who wins.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: A Tacit Deal with a Nephilim
A story about someone who realizes their family’s good luck is Nephilim-adjacent, and the flood is still, in some sense, owed.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: The Unreasonable Fear of Repetition
Repetition is dangerous in this world. Say a thing twice, do a thing twice, and something notices.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: What We Tell Each Other
A group of Final Girls sit around a campfire and tell each other horror stories.