Tag: Fiction
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A Spoon in the Desert
“Hey, Abdul!” “Hey guys, what’s up?” “Where’ve you been all summer? It’s the first day of school and we never even got to hang out!” Habib complained. “You’d never believe me.” Abdul shook his head with a wry grin. “It’s too…amazing.” “Sure we would. C’mon! Give it up!” Ali urged. “Well, okay.” Abdul shrugged. “My dad had…
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Candle Mustard
The mail carrier had come early that day, and Melissa rushed out to see what he’d brought. There was a shiny looking envelope hand-lettered in magenta Candle Mustard — their signature font. “Oh, God,” she mumbled. “Not another damn Sublimity Party.” Sure enough, it was. And for that coming Saturday, no less. “Crap! I’m so…
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Chasya & Samar
On her knees and white-knuckling the porcelain bowl, Samar awaited the next surge of morning sickness to spew forth. In the kitchen, Abdul was shrieking at one of his buddies on the prepaid cell phone she’d purchased for him at Wal-Mart yesterday. “Pray God my baby isn’t a boy,” she implored and wretched the remainder…
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Ticket to Paradise
Today’s writing prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Train Ticket. Geoffrey was late for everything, so it was no surprise that he missed the last train to Paradise, PA. The next one was scheduled for 9:00 pm that night. “But that’s three hourrrrrs from now…” Geoffrey whined to the ticket person—Sybil, according to her name…
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Al had been gone for nine years now. Marnie’s head knew it was time to move on, but her heart was stubborn. It didn’t want to let go of love even though all it had to hold on to was what used to be. It would never change. There were no new memories to make,…
aka, The Abject Muse 