Here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll get through graduation then–boom! I’m outta here. I’m heading west. No destination, no plan, just the road and me and a trunkful of Bangs.
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He lay as if alive. It seemed that if they waited just a little longer, he would open his eyes. He would sit up. He would smile at them – their firstborn, with his mother’s nose and build and his father’s way of pausing before he spoke, of losing himself…
“I need to talk to the person who saw me yesterday. I think her name was Kristin. Yes, it was Kristin. I need to talk to her now.” The woman at the counter was firm, her anger restrained. The receptionist tried to explain that Kristin was with another client at…
Anne sat, shoulder-hunched, in the lobby of the Eye Doctor. Tall and lanky, she seemed folded in on herself like a deck chair, her big eyes roving the gentle gray and blue islands of empty chairs and side tables. She had never been to the Eye Doctor before. It had…
“I went with Jenny to that new coffee shop on the south side of town today.” Brad made a noncommittal sound. “It’s over by that hole that opened up and swallowed the nail salon. It was on the news.” Brad looked up from his phone. “You should see it,” Megan…
It existed among the accumulated knowledge of man, sparking between reams of history and tomes of science. It was, itself, a chain of data, a collection of phrases, equations, arrays, and definitions. Like a snake in the grass, or a child in a store, or a wind through the leaves,…
Many years ago, in a town called Story, IN, a group of writers began a project. Each would start a story in a specific genre, write up to 10,000 words, and then pass the story to a second author. This author would write up to another 10,000 words before passing…
Over the last several years, I have made a habit of reading through Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories. There are five: A Christmas Carol, of course, and four others that are largely unknown, except perhaps for The Cricket on the Hearth. This year I finished the last of these, The Haunted…
I’m turning 40.
Old Man Vincilli had been old for a long time even before he moved out of the city into the hills. There, in his cabin, it was quiet and lonely. At night, he could even see the stars despite the light from the city. The years passed. He walked the…
“You want to do it now?” “Why not?” One reason: With Christmas approaching, the halls of Oakdale Mall were teeming with happy shoppers carrying full wallets. But today’s shoppers were fickle. Any sort of disturbance would drive them online. They would probably never return. The person in front of Assistant…
Jared had called the main office about the woman in his apartment three times, but it insisted that it was not the corporation’s problem. The PhaseCyclers(TM) had been certified by the government (federal and state), and the last inspection two months ago recorded all readings at optimal levels. Also, as…
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