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Going in Hope
December 12, 2009 in 299 Words, Crime, Danger, Family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hero, Parent, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Violence, Writing | Tags: Child, Crime, Danger, Death, Fear, Parent, Police, Violence | by davidbdale | 4 comments
Where we live, the troopers are always on call, even if their kids are in the patrol car with them on their way to the shoe store. I’m twenty minutes out, is all Mom said to the dispatcher, but I could tell from the road we took she wouldn’t be dropping me off. Read the rest of this entry »
Temple’s Mentor
June 8, 2008 in 299 Words, Business, Entertainment, Escape, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hero, Literature, novels, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Business, Danger, Obsession, Psychosis, Success, Threat | by davidbdale | 3 comments
Between the weeklong mentoring retreat and the four-day money migration futurecasting conference, Temple had only one day left for work, and perhaps because of that pending workload, Read the rest of this entry »
Sing Now of His Wrath
February 25, 2008 in 299 Words, Business, Entertainment, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hero, Humor, Literature, Mythology, Religion, Short stories, Stories, Vengeance, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Myth, Vengeance | by davidbdale | 6 comments
Achilles has been making trouble down at the corner store. Yesterday, it was the coolers: they weren’t sufficiently chilling his beverages. We tried apologizing. He only fumed, and fixed us with his godlike glare, and gnawed his garments. Read the rest of this entry »
The Fixer
July 12, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hero, Literature, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Love, Mercy, Yearning | by davidbdale | 16 comments
If love is not the sum of my every day, it’s what I add to every day, or I don’t know love. At large in the world, seeking nothing but a chance, I materialize where small insufficiencies require me. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hero
June 17, 2007 in Family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hero, Mythology, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Child, Fable, Hero, Myth, Parent | by davidbdale | 11 comments
All but deaf to thunderstorms and smoke alarms, nothing seems to wake him, but the guttural rasps of our breathing and the rhythmic creaking of the box spring rouse him from his bed and lead him padding in his footsies to the primal scene. Read the rest of this entry »
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