Tag: short stories
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Sex Tips For The End Of The World
Fiction by Nicole Beckley For a moment she thinks of her ex-husband, Dan, how crazy they were, how immature. How they’d knocked his bed off the shaky cinderblock frame a few times, climbing on top of each other. How her mother had cried at the sight of her in a wedding dress. “So grown up,” […]
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Paloma
New Limestone Review, NLR fiction, short fiction, short stories, Uzodinma Okehi, Uzodinma Okehi fictionExcerpt from “House of Hunger” by Uzodinma Okehi Mist. Like steam, listing, through karst cliffs dense with trees. And green. So-called, finger mountains.
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The Convert
Fiction by Dani Heinemeyer +++Judith starts believing in God after watching the History Channel special, “The Real Face of Jesus.” She sits alone in her living room, the television projecting faint blue holograms onto the coffee table’s mahogany surface.
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The First Annual Landsome Goat and Garden Party
Fiction by B.C. Edwards Every attempt to venture into the kitchen or deeper ended in a polite but firm herding back to the porch. The unlit living room and dark upstairs remained grey mysteries and whatever secrets were locked in the Landsome cellar, all the unearthed Spanish gold, the nuclear codes, the disembodied murdered vagrants, […]
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Standard Operating Procedure
Fiction by Kyle Swensen For most warehouse operations, there are standards of procedure. If you see something, say something. Like a mouse. Or a bird. Or a pile of shit. If you mess up, fess up.
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One-Sentence Stories
Christopher DeWan, Christopher DeWan fiction, New Limestone Review, NLR, one sentence stories, short storiesFiction by Christopher DeWan He stuffed each bottle with a hand‑written note that read “Rescue me” and cast them, wishfully, one by one, into the East River.