Etiqueta: a short story
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‘cover sheet’ by Katya Mills
In 1997 I moved from Boston to Tampa for a job. I liked how stores were open 24 hours a day for I was young and did not well abide the clock. The best oranges you ever tasted were harvested and squeezed and sold in gallon jugs, roadside. I met…
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Royal sessions // 10.5.1998 by Katya Mills
Storms carry clouds over Lake Michigan like a doomed zeppelin. They boarded up some of the many vents in the apartment to mitigate the wind and make it through the winter without too high a heat bill. The needles on the tops of the Sears and Hancock towers puncture the…
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The Silk Fan: Life sometimes forces us to be behind the shadows By María José Luque Fernández
It is an arduous task to maintain decorum and dignity, to know how to behave in every moment that life forces us to traverse. Calm and stillness, turmoil and tears at times; smiles that end up being our light to continue navigating toward that place that awaits us all at…
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too dumb to get it? by Bogdan Dragos
the TV was blaring political crap again somewhere in the background always the same fear inducing story but she didn’t need the political turmoil in the country and the world at large to make her feel afraid She looked at Leonardo, her turtle through the glass of the tank «Soon…
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August Loss by Margaret Kiernan
Today I heard someone complain on the radio About women’s issues, the lead line said How things were not done years ago. Unweighted. Unnamed. Unspoken. Unrooted Unanswered grief and loss. Now I wonder what you’d call me. Would we be two girls against the world? What conspired…
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A Cosy Crime in Cornersville by John RC Potter
Previously published in Killernashville.com https://www.killernashville.com/short-stories/a-cosy-crime-in-cornersville Cornelia Vanstone took great pride in herself in general, but particularly for the following three reasons: her prize-winning gingersnap cookies, a trim waistline despite being in her mid-seventies, and her success as the author of several romance novels, known for their titillating titles and historical…
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The Crime Scene of A Political Murder by CJ Anderson-Wu (吳介禎)
The concrete floor where the victim lay keeps its secret.The birds that witnessed the crime are long gone,their nests abandoned. The branches and trunks that held themcan no longer be trusted—they failed to testifyagainst the violence. New leaves take the place of the yellowed ones,spiraling in the wind before fallinginto…
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don’t have much of an alternative by Bogdan Dragos
«I was raised in a strict Christian home,» he said as he poured another glass of whiskey. «That’s why I turned atheist right after I left to be on my own.» «At 18?» I asked «Nope. At 24.» I liked the guy. He was somewhere in his late fifties looking…
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Galileo’s Recanting (22/6/1633) by Luisa Zambrotta
Portrait, attributed to Murillo, of Galileo gazing at the words “E pur si muove” scratched on the wall of his prison cell Today marks the anniversary of the day the Inquisition condemned Galileo Galilei in 1633. By the end of his trial, the Italian astronomer and physicist was forced to…
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a dream in red | by Nguyễn Văn Thiện
A short story in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Văn ThiệnTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm I live under a red sky. The birds perched on red branches, the songs were red, the poems were red. What had dyed us red? No idea! My mother said: It’s blood! It slipped my mind, it…
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he who conquers lust by Bogdan Dragos
He who conquers lust will conquer anything else Man, what powerful words and what a powerful time to remember them, think about them, reflect It was 11:30 PM Closing time at the grocery store Few jobs are more suitable for 58-year-olds with no education than security guard or that’s what…
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Life is no picnic, but… by Luisa Zambrotta
Édouard Manet – 1863 – Le déjeuner sur l’herbe The word “picnic” comes from the French language, and it became popular pastime in France after the Revolution (1789,) when royal parks became open to the public for the first time.The term derives from pique-nique, used to describe a group of…
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The should of, the could of. by John Coyote
A summer night memory. Once upon a time, dear Peggy. I held you. Your nude body against my body and I remember the softness of your brown eyes. We were wild horses and we wanted to feel everything and more. We knew, you were a summer day and I was…
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neighbor talk by Bogdan Dragos
I believe he was in his mid thirties lived with this one-eyed gray cat that always sat on his lap while he played video games «You should try Diablo 3,» he once told me. «Playing that game feels like gambling. You never know what item’s gonna drop and it just…
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THE LONGEST SHORT WALK by Mike Steeden
Day turns to twilight on the railway platformI’ve been here forever or does it just seem that way?I sit cold and alone as a new star is bornwondering if I should leave now or should I stay?It’s the waiting that kills mequestions bought; questions soldknowing the answersa future foretoldThe last…
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