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Physicist in love

by Kio Stark, posted 36 minutes ago 4141 views22 comments11 fav

He saw symmetry, exquisite geometry, body and built world in harmony.

Angel In Her Pocket

by Martin Dodd, posted 73 minutes ago 55 views11 comment11 fav

She looked down. The people were small, childlike, without understanding. (99 words)

Rob's Send-off

by Robert Crisman, posted 85 minutes ago 77 views22 comments11 fav

They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.

The Feed

by david erlewhinge, posted 86 minutes ago 88 views22 comments22 favs

When I picked him up from school this afternoon, in his cubbyhole I found a picture of what appeared to be a puppy named Carlton sitting on a cloud and chewing a huge bone.

Suspicion

by Siren of Brixton, posted 91 minutes ago 77 views00 comments00 favs

A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.

Runt Of the Litter

by Jerry Ratch, posted 3 hours ago 77 views00 comments00 favs

I remember so many things … do you remember who I am yet? I attached pictures to jog your memory, including the house on Euclid where I lived. That’s my high school graduation photo. I was wearing my hair short that year, and blonde and natural,

Circling '84

by Ginnah Howard, posted 3 hours ago 1111 views11 comment11 fav

Other things are on my mind when the Tupperware lady says, "First, let's move your couch over by the door and the table here."

Legs like David

by Lorissa Rinehart, posted 3 hours ago 1212 views00 comments00 favs

She had legs like David and Joseph was drawn to them irremediably.

4 Scars

by Daniel Rubenstein, posted 4 hours ago 1010 views00 comments00 favs

Within 3 seconds the replicant Abraham Lincoln now knew everything there was to know in this world. The errant input function had created a memory leak that lead into the network. First local systems, local networks, to city, state, government, then world

Still Life in a Bowl

by Ann Bogle, posted 4 hours ago 2323 views77 comments44 favs

I sprinkle seaweed over the water and all twelve rise to feed. The two that went down the hole knew to come up. A toilet has mouths and caverns, not a bad place at all for fish.

Elegy on a country rooftop

by Brad Fisher, posted 4 hours ago 88 views00 comments00 favs

Willa knows why Jimmy reached for the thirty ought six Chambered a round With three more clinking in his pants pocket And took to the roof

A Hall of Mirrors

by Darius McCaskey, posted 5 hours ago 2828 views00 comments00 favs

My Heart goes Boom

by Stuart Millard, posted 6 hours ago 1212 views22 comments00 favs

On his knees in front of the transplant board, he pleaded for his ailing heart, spluttering on its last dying beats, to be replaced with a bomb.

A Brief, Protracted Reflection

by Matt Shaw, posted 6 hours ago 1212 views00 comments00 favs

...Loves and fights and retires; / And dies.

Samantha’s Craving in 55 Words

by Frank Freund Sr., posted 7 hours ago 2323 views66 comments11 fav

Samantha was crashing on an old flame’s couch. Next morning she found the message, “Hot and ready, whenever you are!” Her mind wandered, her desire peaked.




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  2. faved the story Raisins.
  3. commented on Raisins
    OK, I pretty definitely remember this story. I just love this. Nothing is what it seems. (And--goes without saying--no one is who they...) And perhaps my favorite line is the last. "His words ...
  4. Oh, thank you Julie! And thanks for including the link! I've been having link (linkage) lapses lately
  5. Yum. Delicious story idea...all the ingredients for a great book. Would love a double-signed book as well. It's on order.
  6. Ann, I think I remember this story. Is that possible? Here are a couple of my favorite lines: "It's not reading, Mother, she says. Everything is not reading." "He has an inbox and an outbox...
  7. wrote on Tim Elhajj's wall.
    Your Guernica piece kicked serious ass. Great to see you here.
  8. Thanks Kathy!
  9. Beautiful, multi-faceted, subtle and evocative. Great work!
  10. Oh and the Invictus line got a laugh from me, Martin. Your dad sounds a lot like the narrators I write about. My dad is nothing like that but for some reason all the fathers end up that way. J...
  11. Plug away, you two. Loved the interview. Here's a quick link: http://blog.fictionaut.com/2010/09/03/checking-in-with-what-may-have-been/
  12. Good short story, leaves you thinking, these two lines in particular: "I'm taking an angel home . . . laughing when she hit the ground." Graphic.
  13. Thanks a heck of a lot, Martin and Jack. Glad this piece had some authenticity. I nearly got my ass kicked all the time as a kid ... and I had "fun" (a stressful type) writing this piece. Sa...
  14. Ditto on all of the above. And double-signed? Even better!
  15. faved the story Physicist in love.
  16. This is gorgeous and perfect and yes, tells the entire story.
  17. posted to Susan & Gary's New Book in the General forums.
    Excellent! Thanks for the link. Looking forward to the reading in October.
  18. Dear LA, This is hilarious and poignant. I like the play on the ineptitude of bourgeois feminism and the literary canon. I liked your details - small but well placed. And I especially liked th...
  19. Great. Reminds me of home. I had a panda bear with his stuffing knocked out and a Dad who quoted Invictus.
  20. wrote on and Lyudmyla Gileta's wall.
  21. commented on Fiancée
    ="I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship":)? /Mr.Gary Percesepe explained me something/
  22. Thanks for the comments, all.

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