Flash Fiction
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Reruns of Red River
I remember what my grandmother has long forgotten. She was an integral part of my childhood, yet she doesn’t recognize…
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Mänsklig Kvinna
Linda’s first mistake was getting lost inside an IKEA. Her second was thinking she could run. The Swedish meatballs she…
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Six Things the Shooter Took
News: High School Shooting Claims Twelve 1. (at 24) We’re sitting on the steps in the dark watching the storm come…
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Thaw
When the first truck hit Nevin’s dog, the howls echoed off the brick walls of First United Methodist Church. It…
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Deep Rivers
If you work at a cat shelter, you will cry. You may be the toughest feral who ever gnawed leather.…
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The Drop-Out Drops In
I wonder if they write stories at the Church of God’s Love. How do they remember the hobos who rode…
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Pass
I sat staring at the tiny squares of the pee-stained tile floor, marveling at the idiocy of designing a high…
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Promises
I knew bad things would happen to me the day I hit a red Volkswagen in Reynosa and drove away. …
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The Price of Infrastructure
Every kind of car whizzes past me. The roar of the tires on asphalt is deafening. A trackhoe’s track grinds…
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Fowl Intentions
I never thought my greatest nemesis would be a goose outside the office door, waiting, plotting the moment it would…