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Category: Fiction

Against All Odds by Michael Emeka

October 24, 2020 admin 1 Comment

The first time I saw Chetachi after she moved into our house, she was in the backyard, brushing her teeth. Even through the toothpaste foam, I could tell she had a gleaming white set of teeth.

‘Hi,’ she mumbled, looking …

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The Commuter by Jim Woessner

October 20, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Five Twenty

Marco turned the key in the ignition. “Click.” Just a “click.” The car didn’t start. He checked the transmission in “park,” the brake pedal depressed, and turned the key again. Again nothing. A dead battery. Marco pounded the …

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Being Good by LA Robbins

October 18, 2020 admin Leave a comment

‘I am going to kiss you so hard you’ll never forget it,’ Rod announces as I leave his yard to go home for dinner. I smile uncertainly because I want to be polite and because Melanie and a few other …

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How Love Fled by Alison D. Goeller

October 16, 2020 admin 3 Comments

They met through a mutual acquaintance, a photographer who had a knack for bringing people together. “You’ve got a lot in common; I think the two of you would hit it off.” Though she’d heard that line before, she was …

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Hiya, Pops by E.L. Tenenbaum

October 15, 2020 admin 1 Comment

I never thanked my stepdad for nudging me off course when I already had one foot on the fast track to ruining my life. I didn’t even know what he was up to before it was too late to undo …

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Relapse by Radim Nemela

October 13, 2020 admin Leave a comment

It was a Friday night and I just came from work, the door to the sitting room was closed and from outside the house I saw that the light was on but I just assumed that County Boy was having …

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Isabella or Penelope by Edward Sheehy

October 12, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Cassandra’s Unisex Hair Salon and Psychic Palm Advisory occupied 700 primo square feet in a renovated strip mall fronting Columbia Pike just minutes from the Pentagon and a nine iron shot across the Potomac River to the District of Columbia. …

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An Angel’s Scent by Barbara Schilling Hurwitz

October 9, 2020 admin 2 Comments

Harry sat at the table with Evie sipping his mint tea as he did every morning. Three weeks had passed since the funeral, but he still felt her presence and talked with her as though she were there beside him. …

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A Mark Left in Littleton by Liz Betz

October 6, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Bessie sneezes, then wipes her nose with a tissue from her sweater pocket. The work is a lot of what she expected, boxes to open and sort through, although more often now she only peeks inside to name where the …

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The Bleeder by Linda Ann Strang

October 5, 2020 admin Leave a comment

George lends me a book about the Czar of Russia and his family and how they get shot in Ekaterinburg, every last one. He seems to think tragedy is good for me. “That Robert Massie. Look what he achieved, and …

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