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  • Lightning Temper

    I wouldn’t have been in the grocery store on Thanksgiving morning if I didn’t need to take some dog food and a loaf of bread to my elderly aunt. That’s all she said she needed when I talked to her last night, after I baked her casserole. I would have been at home, binging on… Read more

  • Bright and Dark

    He’d been here before and wanted to show her something magnificent. Read more

  • The Tempest

    “I felt my pulse quicken when lightning lit the sky again, it was far away and showed the line of floating houses” Read more

  • Tuesdays

    I didn’t need to read the headline, “Teacher arrested for Drunk Driving.”  Read more

  • What’s Your Best Trick?

    John noticed the barrier she’d put between them. Read more

  • Hotline

    Lucinda called the suicide hotline.. The counselor’s parting words were to cook something delicious just for herself. The counselor began with, “too hard to be alone, too hard to have a job you hate, too hard to be a senior citizen so far into debt the only way your life insurance would pay off would… Read more

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  • Karma Whispers

    God, if you say one more weird thing about something, You’ll get punched.

  • Christmas Eve Morning

    “Hell, Stan, there are too many for a list?” Stan shook his head no, and whistled low. Greg oozed frustration. “Were you ever sure about anything?” “ I swear we’re here.” Stan jumped up and dunked on Greg. Steve dunked on both of them, then got serious.  “We’ll never get a list like this right,”…

  • A Cat at the Museum

    “I know what “Azure” means, why wouldn’t I know what happiness and tranquility mean? Just because you’re my Papa doesn’t mean you’re smart or anything.”

  • The Race

    This isn’t an excerpt, it’s a warning. A reader told me this was depressing.

  • A Ghostie, but true, Christmas Tale

    “You better have the coffee ready before you get me out of bed.”