Tag: stories
group name: flashandshine
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March 11, 2008 01:08 PM EDT --
Purity, brilliance characterized by white, flowing robes, is made precarious by temptations to tie-dye it. Not that colorful raiment means adulteration, but its significance is altered.
Cameron philosophized . . . more
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March 16, 2008 05:45 PM EDT --
Mary left in a still huff leaving Matt slumped by a breakfast plate, absently pressing the tine of a fork, questioning.
" Ouch! " Matt jerked his finger away from the fork. Suddenly he . . . more
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March 29, 2008 09:40 PM EDT --
The mantel clock did its dirty work: each beat struck Shirley's worried heart.
Where was Doctor Gill?
Tick tock.
Oh, Jason, be okay! Shirley prayed.
Tick tock.
Dread. Would . . . more
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March 30, 2008 02:55 PM EDT --
Sampson watched the top scoop wobble on his rocky road ice cream creation. Whoa!
Wordless, the ice cream man reached over and patted it down.
Relieved, Sampson nodded and ran off.
Mom waited . . . more
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April 05, 2008 10:10 PM EDT --
Eventually I venture into the world and get involved—I am human! It always leads to tears because I always die and renascence leaves me with living memories.
So many loves I've lost! I . . . more
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April 15, 2008 11:23 PM EDT --
"I'm so happy, Pete. So sensitive to everything!"
Pete's eyebrows rose. He observed Jack snoring perilously on Gwen's inattentive shoulder.
"Really?" . . . more
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April 19, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
Life is good; the twins beside me, the Sloppy Joe I've craved, in my face.
"We'll nail her with these juices!"
Huh! The twins can't talk.
"Killer!" . . . more
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March 24, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
Last night, Baron Von Clarnicht, anonymous sources confirm with great disdain, blasted his considerable fortune in a game of baccarat at Monte Carlo.
Arrogance prompted the sensational affair . . . more
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March 17, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Sam Rollin's empty garage plunged into darkness. Sam rammed into a shape.
Impossible!
A sleek outline. Frank Sinatra's voice volumed inside.
The light flashed on.
A 1952 XKe . . . more
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March 01, 2008 01:30 PM EST --
"There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings."
Thanks, Ian Rankin! Mr. Tartan Noir. His . . . more
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March 02, 2008 09:47 PM EST --
"There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings."
Max tore his favorite page from Rankin's . . . more
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May 21, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
One whole year after the outbreak and the doctors are still watching us. They live apart, even posting guards. What are they afraid of? Only half of them survived their vaccine. . . . more
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May 07, 2008 10:38 PM EDT --
Only thirteen were there that day. Was it an omen? All we knew was that there was only enough of the new vaccine for us. No one else besides the doctors would be saved. . . . more
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June 28, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
"What's taking so long?"
That's me, waiting my turn in this bum human line of depressed and weary souls in this bum and godforsaken drugstore. I look back and there are ten faces, . . . more
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April 16, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
Beginning back in May 2004 and ending a little over a year later, Dave Eggers published short short stories for Guardian Weekend Magazine every week - a project I only recently stumbled upon several . . . more
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October 20, 2006 08:47 AM EDT --
For N.B.D. (Written for my friend whose sorrow I cannot know)
There was no warning-
no sign or scream in the dark.
I didn't know.
There was no indication -
not one breath was taken away . . . more
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May 09, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
Congratulations!
Congratulations! You are the 1,000,000th visitor to this article which means by simply clicking on this ad you will become eligible to receive a special prize in a box professionally . . . more
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March 30, 2008 09:05 PM EDT --
Angela sat alone at the kitchen table and took her new medication. The doctor said it would help stabilize her moods. She thought back over the last twenty four hours and prayed . . . more
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March 17, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
"Liar", I screamed. Michael rushed in. "What is it, Babe?!" "He's lying", I wailed, jabbing the TV screen. "How can you . . . more
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January 14, 2007 03:54 PM EST --
Statements, emotions, feelings and content in response to the following incompletes. In 1998, Dusty Reed challenged me electronically to come up with statements to her "Ifs":
1. If I feel . . . more
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