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"The Trade" by Mark Rigney - 0 views
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"Falling Castles" by Jamie McEwan - 0 views
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Ice Cream and English Summers - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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Six months pregnant, and I should have been happy. Six words to fire me, and I should have been angry. Instead, I drifted in a fugue. Spring faded, summer swelled, and our lives were falling apart. So we went for ice cream. June heat, dirty pavement… Ice Cream and English Summers - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2oSlhyx
Slaked Lime, Iron Knife - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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A beautiful woman robed all in white, lips red as rubies, followed the young, pale-skinned priest as he walked though the forest. The priest knew she was a yakshi, a demon that tore men's throats out and drank their blood to quench her thirst. She w… Slaked Lime, Iron Knife - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2x1w90H
A Good Egg - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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He climbs the spiraling stairs. Bowtie dangling from his fist, he climbs and sits atop the castle wall, where the torch-dotted city folds to dark shapes. Below, vastness, empty, as he feels sitting here. His feet are heavy, pulling downward. He does… A Good Egg - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2wXE9Rk
Ghost of the Pepper - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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In the cool of the morning, I walk between my rows of peppers, brushing my fingers against the glossy leaves of Anaheims, Brazilian Starfishes, and Carolina Reapers. I grow peppers the way my mother and grandmother before me did-I grow them for the … Ghost of the Pepper - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MmTOhW
Canada Girl vs. The Thing Inside Pluto - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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The Thing Inside Pluto was displeased. So was Aimee. Its roiling muscle-goo made her queasy, and she'd dressed for pilates, not for two bland government spooks kidnapping her to negotiate with an alien. She lit a cigarette to block the ozone smell. … Canada Girl vs. The Thing Inside Pluto - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2OVDExF
The Moon on a Breakfast Plate - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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She's four years old, wearing footie pajamas with giraffes on them, and she wants the moon. She's very specific about when and where. She would like to have the moon on a plate with her breakfast. That way she can look at it while she eats, and when… The Moon on a Breakfast Plate - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2PpDKhO
Things I Realized on Finding an Alien in the Passenger Seat of My Car - Flash Fiction O... - 0 views
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Three and a half hours to interview, 270 miles to LA, 94 mph The mass of writhing tentacles that slithered onto the passenger seat a minute ago probably isn't a hallucination. Correction: given that I had to blow into a tube to start this rental, it… Things I Realized on Finding an Alien in the Passenger Seat of My Car - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2N4CMWU
A Partial List of Lists I Have Lost Over Time - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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To-Do List for July 18, 2039 Kill my duplicate from another dimension. Get rid of all this stupid kale. Top Five Reasons I Hate Kale Kale is like broccoli that wishes it were lettuce, or lettuce that wishes it were broccoli. Get your own identity, k… A Partial List of Lists I Have Lost Over Time - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2PrhNPJ
We Are Not Alone - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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From H.G. Wells's tripod-controlling Martians to Douglas Adams's poetry-loving Vogons, from the cosmic horrors of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos to the scholarly Sorns of C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, science fiction writers and readers alike have long be… We Are Not Alone - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2N4AgA1
Phases - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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I clearly remember the first time I saw The Lion King. It was July of 1994, me, my toddler, my newborn, and my mother in a classic big-screen theater. I remember being awestruck by that song, and that stunning opening scene. Mom? She said, "It's… Phases - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MZje6i
Nobody Puts Baby in a Chamber - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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Please stop screaming. [110dB-adult human is distraught.] I assure you your offspring is just fine. It appears to be entertained by the dust 'bunnies' in my holding tank. Oh-please stop screaming-it has found those plastic keys I sucked up last week… Nobody Puts Baby in a Chamber - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2PnIkgz
Reliving My Grandmother's Youth - Flash Fiction Online - 0 views
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When we turn thirteen, we witch-children must sing at the Witches' Sabbat. It is how newly of-age witches are introduced to our ancestors, my grandmother said. Taking puffs of her pipe, she told me about her own Sabbat, in the same woods I would hav… Reliving My Grandmother's Youth - Flash Fiction Online via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MY0fJ3
The Derelict (Hodgson) - Wikisource, the free online library - 0 views
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The source document of this text is not known. Please see this document's talk page for details for verification. "Source" means a location at which other users can find a copy of this work. Ideally this will be a scanned copy of the original that c… The Derelict (Hodgson) - Wikisource, the free online library via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2L4d430
The Silver Key - Wikisource, the free online library - 0 views
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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. via Pocket The Silver Key - Wikisource, the free online library via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nN6ZPh