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Change of Trains
January 29, 2008 in 299 Words, Escape, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short stories, Stories, Technology, Travel, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Apocalypse, Danger, Dystopia, Infection, Madness, Monologue, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Sickness, Terror, Threat | 4 comments
It so happens I’m sick of being a man if this is what it means. I won’t be home today or at the office either. I’ve been summoned and nothing else matters. Permit me to narrate. Read the rest of this entry »
Bobcat in a Box
January 18, 2008 in 299 Words, Art, Family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, Memory, Separation, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Abandon, Danger, Fear, Loss, Love, Lovers, Separation, Threat, Yearning | 7 comments
Life may be short but forgetting takes forever, especially when they leave something behind. It’ll be four years now since Bob walked out with nowhere in particular to go, just trying to make distance from me. Read the rest of this entry »
Love Bites
January 2, 2008 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Love, novels, Poetry, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Art, Danger, Humor, Infection, Love, Lovers, Poetry, Romance, Writing | 8 comments
Boy meets girl, girl bites boy, boy sees doctor. This is fact. We can verify this. Boy is intrigued but girl moves away before satisfying his curiosity. With its motives and suggestions, this is narrative. Read the rest of this entry »
Tan Machines
December 29, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, novels, Robot, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Danger, Dystopia, Eye Contact, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 4 comments
They dance at parties now who only ten years ago moved like tan machines or seated at desks impersonated receptionists or standing stiffly with legs spread functioned as security guards. Read the rest of this entry »
Watchers
November 19, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Voyeur | Tags: Cheat, Danger, Eye Contact, Sex, Voyeur | 9 comments
They come to Miami, he told me, because flights are cheap and the locals mind their own business. Same here, I told them, plus the women are drop-dead knockouts! I raised my glass and reached it past him in his wife’s direction; we all clinked glasses and I ordered a round. Where I come from, that’s a contract. Read the rest of this entry »
Ad Hominem
October 19, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Violence, Writing | Tags: Car, Danger, Gun, Hostility, Marriage, Romance, Threat, Violence | 9 comments
Until my hitchhiker showed me her gun, I’d been speculating whether crazy and neglect could render a woman nearly unrecognizable since I’d last seen her. She’d chosen a shockingly dangerous place to flag down cars, Read the rest of this entry »
Similar Ducks
November 2, 2006 in 299 Words, Books, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, novels, Poetry, reading, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Charity, Conscience, Danger, Dog, Generosity, Regret | 10 comments
I had been seeing her, always at the same place, muttering to the same or similar ducks, for weeks before I ventured to speak to her. If I had not had crackers in my pocket I would never have begun our little commerce with an offer of food, Read the rest of this entry »
Pre-Crash Checklist
October 20, 2006 in 299 Words, Books, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Airport, Crash, Danger, Death, Monologue, Speech | 2 comments
Slip the flat metal end into the buckle and pull the loose end to secure the belt around your hips. Get and remain comfortable. Passenger attitude is an essential component of airworthiness, Read the rest of this entry »
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