Jill walked along the trail near the icy creek attempting to calm her anger.  How could Steven do that to her? Did rejecting him the night before carry over to work? As Jill rounded the corner Steven stepped out of the water naked. She laughed uncontrollably.  Even she knew that Steven would leave her...
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“Mom wants five bream on credit, please,” says the girl to the towering Ms. Lamprey. Ms. Lamprey, to everyone in the store, “That whole trailer park wants credit!” Nearing her way out, the little girl drops her parcel of fish. One moment. One fish. Hidden up under a shelf. Four fish will do just...
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His belittling was incessant. The worst names a woman can hear. Infractions spewed forth even while he chewed. Oh, how she’d like to smash that face into his glop! Sated, he stood up. His woman did too. She watched them leave the restaurant. Clutching the cold steel in her pocket, she was not far...
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“In national news today, federal officials investigating last week’s suicide Dr. Gerald Dean, prominent genetic researcher, say they may have a link between millions of embezzled grant dollars and Dean’s gambling addiction…”
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Edgar exhausted himself on the truth, but the State saw a different truth. So he found Jesus and accepted his fate. He was served his last meal and made his final walk. He was determined not to shuffle, but to walk like a man.
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A flash fiction piece by Alex that brings the underworld and Hollywood together in a venue on the other side of the camera. A place we really aren't used to.
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This piece was written as a companion piece to Switch Blade, published by Carrie White at tumblr. I was inspired to write this parallel of her engaging tale of a loving housewife's unusual discovery...
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