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The Cracked Plate
“the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will...
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Open Your Veins, and Bleed
“You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.” —-Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith (and many others) Our kitchen cabinets are filled with pint beer glasses emblazoned with local...
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Such Recognitions Are Not Reversible
At last, one proper Sherlock Holmes London evening, the unmistakable smell of gas came to Pirate from a dark street lamp, and out of the fog ahead materialized a giant, organlike form. Carefully,...
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Almost Swear He’s Being Followed, Or Watched Anyway
But something’s different… something’s … been changed … don’t mean to bitch, folks, but, well for instance he could almost swear he’s being followed, or watched anyway. Some of the tails are pretty...
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Congealed in the Dark Arteries
“Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan’s blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. – Rhondda...
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Greater Clarity Returned To Life
“After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth – clear skies; moist brilliant earth – greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the...
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Short Story (flash fiction) of the Day – Skylight, by Silvina Ocampo
Above the hall in that house with a skylight was another mysterious home, and through the glass you could see a family of feet, surrounded by halos, like saints, and the shadows of the rest of the...
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Afraid of the Light
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato The Cedars, Dallas, Texas
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Short Story of the Day, Flash Fiction, The Exceptional Properties of Sea...
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total...
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Sawtooth Reflections
“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived...
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