Tag: Fiction
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Read more: Homeboy’s Sneakers
Phil had only a few weeks left at the Chesterfield Halfway House in Plymouth, Michigan. That is, if he followed all their silly rules and didn’t screw up. It seemed to Phil that the people in charge at Chesterfield didn’t…
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Read more: Waiting
This week’s visual prompt at 3LineTales is the image below. What is taking them so long? Maybe I should call back just to remind them, but I don’t want to be a pain in their collective asses. On the other…
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Read more: New Crescent Moon
It’s First Line Friday over at the MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie Blog. The first line of our story or poem will be “Summer died that night.” Summer died that night. Logically, I knew it had to happen. But when it did, it…
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Read more: “L” is for Loser
It’s Monday at MindLovesMisery Menagerie. That means it’s Wordle Day! The challenge is to use at least ten of the words listed below in a story or poem. Scatter Atemporal ((adj.) free from the limitations of time) Marriage Rounded Locomotive…
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Read more: Out Loud
Star-crossed lovers in perpetual orbit; the Moon circling the Earth circling the Sun— a Sun that doesn’t seem to shine on us. Still, your heart beats the rhythm of mine as my soul is the other half of yours despite…
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Read more: From Hell to Hero
Gloria awakened that morning with an erroneous smile on her face. Slowly, reality set-in as she came to accept the fact that Sunday was gone and Monday had taken its place. Monday meant school. School meant mean kids and bullies. Mean kids…
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Read more: A Day in the Life
It was just one of those days in Murray-Ville. He’d been fired from his job at the Monkey Bar for beating up the customers. So, with nothing better to do, he went home. There, Murray found his wife, Gwendolina, in bed with…