Tag: family
group name: shortfiction
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January 07, 2007 02:32 AM EST --
An eerie absence of everything familiar troubled Ben, yet he hesitated to move since the bed felt more comfortable than it had in years. He compromised; didn't move a muscle other than . . . more
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March 01, 2008 07:41 PM EST --
This is an excerpt from my novel in progress,"Miss Nellie's Song" Last part of Chapter 5: A Hard Roe to Hoe.
Necessary info: Time: April 6, 1947. Kate has married . . . more
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July 05, 2006 08:01 PM EDT --
Seven days ago I married a nerd. Now, nobody will talk to me. It all started off as a bet. Destiny has a strange way of changing people.
It happened one night at the Sea Breeze Bar where my friends and . . . more
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June 06, 2006 04:02 AM EDT --
Pure Evil - Stalking Lizzeth
They had a deep seated desire to see her suffer. They malingered at first. They harbored feelings of ill will and sought satisfaction. They carried on secretly, . . . more
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September 28, 2006 10:10 AM EDT --
Swans
The consensus among the family was that Susan's brother-in-law Ed was henpecked – only that wasn't the word they used. Susan had always liked . . . more
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March 03, 2008 05:06 PM EST --
(Fictional story, yet based on my own experience. How easily the prejudicial hateful words of a parent can affect a young girl's self esteem)
Hannah sat on the sofa looking . . . more
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May 04, 2006 09:10 PM EDT --
Peculiar Prelude - Ms. Everett's Grandson - Two Word Challenge
Ms. Everett wobbled up the cracking steps to her front porch lagging bags from the corner grocery. "Justin, come help me," . . . more
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June 19, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
Of all the trailer numbers in the park, 13-F was the most well known. Adhering with common superstition, all the rows in the trailer park had skipped the number 13 except for row F. Old man Sutton had . . . more
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August 21, 2006 12:23 AM EDT --
I had been told that longevity runs in my family but I didn't believe it. Although my father lived into his late seventies, most of my relatives surrendered their lives much earlier to the usual . . . more
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April 29, 2006 03:06 PM EDT --
She had been careful with her virginity, as if it were a hundred-dollar-bill she felt unable to spend on new shoes for fear of missing the rent. She had tested her men with wildness, . . . more
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October 03, 2006 10:52 AM EDT --
The Cat's Seat
I love her but damn. Look at her lying there on her back. She takes up the entire couch. She is not a petite . . . more
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October 06, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
"Chris has a nose bleed, Chris has a nosebleed!" I was squealing and running while time stood still for my little brother as his nose hemorrhaged. Grandma rushed to the front porch, . . . more
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December 19, 2006 04:24 AM EST --
Many times
We ask questions
Of the blinking bulbs in our soul
We ponder
The cleaving fears
Which rock our pangolo dance
We are
Forced to glimpse our twin-shades
Seeing his . . . more
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March 23, 2006 10:54 PM EST --
She tried to look inconspicuous. It wasn't difficult. There were lots of tourists in the church, their knit caps poking over threefold brochures. They scuffled through the antiquities of Saint Patrick's . . . more
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December 20, 2006 03:35 AM EST --
Another night
And the weaves show signs
Of broken tethers
Another evening
And the weariness of
Ceaseless chatter
Lean heavily on a tired mind
Another day
And the words . . . more
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February 09, 2008 07:46 PM EST --
My mother is dying. Not today, but possibly tomorrow; for sure by next month. We are doing the hospice thing. . . . more
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June 03, 2006 09:44 PM EDT --
Addison was truly well-named - for every year of his married life he had steadily increased his total progeny so that a regular swarm of sons (and daughters) touched every crease and . . . more
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September 18, 2006 11:45 PM EDT --
As I read through the dozens of articles and the various views, my own callous remarks and those of others, I ask myself why I must suffer the consequences of my convictions.
For me, it is to help . . . more
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June 12, 2007 08:45 PM EDT --
I've been in the hospital for a while and that's why I haven't been here. My kidneys have given out and now I am on dialysis three times a week. I am doing okay and feel really good!
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October 21, 2007 05:31 AM EDT --
[Part 1: The Shrine]
My mother was a religious zealot and an artful seamstress. I didn’t have much choice except to prepare myself for fashionable sainthood.
From the time I knew . . . more
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