Stories tagged travel

Short Terms Plans

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It's going to be expensive, but it's booked and I am going to enjoy every single minute of it.

Arrivals

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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.

Girl in 'Nam (Part 1)

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Licking my wounds. That's what my mother calls it. I'm not really sure what that means or if it's true. Sure, losing your boyfriend, apartment and job in a matter of months can drive someone to do something impulsive. Something crazy. But I've always b

Girl in 'Nam (Part 2)

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A life in NYC was one I always dreamed of but I found myself turning into a bitter, sarcastic person who was losing the ability to see the silver lining in just about anything.

Far

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His mother named him Far because she had high hopes for him

Sono Canadese (I am from Canada)

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He spoke passable French, and had charmed local femmes. But it was a different story when he crossed the border into Italy, and landed in Rapallo.

Journey

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She looked out the window. It was raining. “Better than snow” she told herself. She didn’t mind traveling. It was good to travel once in a while. By road, when someone else was driving. Like now, on the bus back home. It gave you time to reflect, re

Workplace

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me and my best mate, with a fat polish girl on his lap, her hip tight against the dashboard and she’s laughing at all our jokes told in very bad French.

In transit

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Clare sits bolt upright in the hard plastic chair, warily tracking every passer-by. In her lap, Kim’s hair is damp with sweat, dark blonde curls melting against her flushed cheeks. Clare absently strokes the length, soothing both of them.

So Much Silence, So Much Space

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My foot was on the gas, I tell her, one hand tight on the wheel, the other moving the shifter from second to third, briefly into fourth, and then back into second again. I was making progress, whipping my car around corners and ripping through the gears a

The Gift Downright

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A column of children yellow striped and blue and red below black hair smooth trailing

Migratory Mistakes

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Unadorned tragedies pinpoint the worst angles of the road; simple crosses or bouquets line boulders painted with car crash smoke or skid marks that tiptoe to the edge of cliffs and then, apparently, leap.

It is Midnight

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It is midnight in Utah, but I can’t tell. It always looks like midnight in a cave.

Arborist Abridged

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Besides, that might have been the area of his birth, and if so, Jacob was now the director, priest, pallbearer, driver, and custodian of a hometown funeral

Castor and Pollux

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Over the stained fence the spectres flew and that is where the rain was turning colder and colder in the time when the trees had become mostly bare.