Tag: short shorts
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February 10, 2008 06:09 PM EST --
December 15 th , 1979
"I'm home!"
"In the kitchen, George." His wife yelled.
"So, where's our birthday girl?"
"In the attic again."
"Have . . .
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July 10, 2008 12:57 AM EDT --
This weeks 100 Word Stories Prompt. Tabloid Headline:
"Dead husband buried with winning lotto ticket in his pocket."
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August 25, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
yellow birches, red maples, and old old oaks offer their leaves to the rain-soaked road, mourning this august twilight, in camouflage for the palm-sized discs of flattened baby snappers. i continue to . . .
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September 30, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
The Woman Afraid of Dogs
I envision her lying in her bed at night, shoulders sharp, clavicles screaming, and her eyes squeezed shut in anger at ambient starlight.
I see her sitting at the kitchen table . . .
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November 04, 2009 05:29 PM EST --
Lula, at 60, was too old to be a whore, and too smart to be a madam. Scratching a living from the arid Oklahoma soil did not appeal, and she never did cotton to book learning.
But . . .
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March 31, 2008 09:36 AM EDT --
"Write a short scene in which one character reduces another to uncontrollable sobs without touching him or speaking."
Another blizzard hid my path to the woods. While carrying pails of . . .
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December 17, 2006 03:41 PM EST --
As you get those Christmas cards written, and check everyone's wish list twice, remember that holidays are more than a time of gathering with family and dinner with all the fixings. If you write, . . .
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August 22, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
My Hero and I thought we had finally reached the end, a conclusion. As we looked at each other in silence, waiting for our bankruptcy attorney to finish talking to that other attorney, we both seemed to . . .
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September 29, 2007 01:29 PM EDT --
Wandering and Wondering
All too accustomed to a plush office chair in front of a laptop computer, my body now awakens to the invigorating hike along the rocky shores around Rock Island. All those . . .
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July 09, 2009 07:38 PM EDT --
Implied, Not Explicit
Ratcheting buzz of uneasy voices, anxious shuffle of scores of feet. Their numbers continued to dwindle. Once again, they wait in the dust and oily . . .
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November 04, 2009 04:06 PM EST --
The exhausted paint stumbled again, her hooves striking sparks in the rocky arroyo. Jase rolled forward, catching his horse’s mane, a fresh trail of blood surging down his side. He had ceased . . .
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August 09, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Raised in a typical southern household, my parents rules possessed a life of their own.
The rules fostered guidelines for my siblings and me. These . . .
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October 02, 2009 10:44 AM EDT --
Jimmy needed just one night, but Bobbi would never enter the haunted house un-enticed. She took the bait, though. It was not so much his Russian dancing boots , or liberal sprays of Axe . . .
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November 12, 2009 04:39 PM EST --
Enviro-friendly West Coast technology uses the spring in your step to keep YOU in touch!
Limited clinical trials prove: subdermal implantation of our patented copper wire ankle . . .
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February 07, 2009 01:31 AM EST --
So here I am.
Ready to take on another day's work. It is almost midnight. Almost the big so-called Big Day. All the fanfare started when one of the mortals came up with this . . .
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October 02, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
A stack of five syrup-soaked waffles piled high with whipped cream and strawberry sauce stared back at her in a tantalizing dare to herself. Emily decided the Saturday after freshman college initiation . . .
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October 02, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
Bobby would never enter the haunted house un-enticed. Jimmy needed just one night, and the right enticement, to satisfy his need. Bobby took the bait, stepped gingerly through the swinging . . .
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October 05, 2007 12:13 AM EDT --
On my birthday, as any perfect September Saturday, the sun danced on quivering red maple leaves, the squirrels anxiously zig-zagged around the park forgetting where to store their huge black walnuts, and . . .
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October 06, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
Sitting on this deck, wrapped up in an acrylic afghan,
I watch distant thin whitecaps appear, disappear, reappear,
out there, on the endless bay, where pelicans . . .
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September 07, 2008 01:59 PM EDT --
September 6, 2008, roughly around 7:30 p.m. in Madison, WI
Long medium brown straight hair hung to the waistline of her red suede jacket. Motionless, she stood, hands at her waist, fingers hidden . . .
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