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Short Story | Updated Jun 16, 2013 | Reads: 7 | Comments: 0 | Likes: 0
Lever
By L Valder MainsAn old man is discovered living alone in the deep woods of Vancouver Island. After his discovery things begin to go wrong.Mechanical and electrical devices will no longer work, technology has crashed and darkness ensues. Something has obviously rebooted civilization to its factory specs and every...
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| Updated Jun 16, 2013
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Tags: death, hubris, testosterone, sticky, nipple, humility.
The Last Sane Man
By Phil SlatteryA man exacts a novel form of vengeance. First published in Ascent Aspirations in 2002.
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| Updated Jun 15, 2013
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Tags: vengeance, board, life, sanity, pistol
Sudan
By Phil SlatteryAn expatriate oil-rigger in Cairo recounts a poignant experience from Sudan. First published in Ascent Aspirations magazine in 2001.
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| Updated Jun 15, 2013
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Tags: sudan, cairo, oil-rigger, nurses, starvation, hunger, tragedy, party
The Man
By Anton SpringfieldThis is an adaptation of an old folk tale called The Hare. In the original, a crafty hare lures a woman from her cabin out into the woods to be with him. She gets bored and lures him back to her cabin and eats him for supper. In my adaptation I switched the species and put a bit of a gruesome ...
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Flightless Nightbird, Or The Reservoir's Bad Dreams
By Anton SpringfieldThis is a short story inspired by a man I met In Palm Desert who called himself Mark the Party Shark. I was riding my skateboard around and he stopped me just to talk for about an hour or so in the hot sun. He must have been about sixty but he told me he used to skateboard too.
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The Flood By): Kiowa L. (Vim)
By VimThese stages of fire and ice through the eyes of a burning soul. "I was too full of wrath to cry... You were too numb to bother." Warnings: Slash/SexualContent/Angst/MildViolence/CharacterDeath
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| Updated Jun 12, 2013
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Tags: slash, vim, kiowa, romance
ASSAULTS AND CARESSES
By Charles Ej MoultonMy wife looked at me. “Peter followed Dierdre down the highway,†she laughed. “When she stopped by a petrol station, he ran after her into the shop and went down upon his knees right there on in front of the attendant and told her, with five people as witnesses, that he had been...
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| Updated Jun 12, 2013
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Tags: relationships, romance, philosophy, love, family
The Last Supper
By KoolkreationsI'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised if you read this!
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| Updated Jun 12, 2013
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Tags: life, death-sentence, reality, humour, twist
I Won't Be Your Crutch
By HearthitI won't be your crutch
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| Updated Jun 12, 2013
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Monogamy Babe
By HearthitMonogamy
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Cigarettes And Drunken Kisses
By HearthitCigarettes and drunken kisses
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| Updated Jun 12, 2013
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Noun Is Black
By BrittanyjacksonpazA young girl is forced to cope with mental illness and a hallucination which tends to haunt her very existence.
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| Updated Jun 12, 2013
| Reads: 14
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Tags: mental, hallucination, family, secret, love, overcoming
Fluorescent Jackets
By HearthitFluorecent jackets at the door
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| Updated Jun 11, 2013
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DOOM
By Oscar Della Romagnaan account of a buissnessman,traped in the unending world of gambling and obscenities,
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| Updated Jun 11, 2013
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