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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Alexis Wolfe, boys, flash, flash fiction, marriage, micro fiction, polygamist, polygamy, relationships, short stories, short story, summer, vss, youth I knew Steve was a would-be polygamist when I married him. Being the first wife, it didn't feel so… Cold Cream | Spelk via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2FCAAog
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Bill Diamond, creature, dark, flash, flash fiction, hunt, hunter, micro fiction, predator, shadows, short stories, short story, vss The beast hunkers down in the concealing dark. Its patience is a skill both innate and practiced. via Pocket Adaptation | Spelk via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2WfqIpY
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io flash, flash fiction, gift, love, micro fiction, Paul Beckman, Peeps, short stories, short story, Sinatra, Valentine's Day, vss, work Valentine's Eve for men at the mall. via Pocket My O. Henry Moment | Spelk via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2YPtJPU
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    baby, cigarette, class, Elaine Chiew, flash, flash fiction, micro fiction, migrant, nationality, relationships, short stories, short story, vss, writer, writing A Tibetan poet. Not just poet, but also Tibetan. via Pocket
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Close Encounters of the Postal Kind | Spelk - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    burden, dinner, flash, flash fiction, micro fiction, Mileva Anastasiadou, neighborhood, numbers, postal code, relationships, short stories, short story, vss I went out with my postal code. He asked me out a month ago. I'm not sure, I told him, I've …
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  • Sunny Jackson on 18 Sep 19
     
    boy, cigarette, drink, family, flash, flash fiction, girl, Louella Lester, micro fiction, school, sex, short stories, short story, vss Jay wasn't a distraction at all. I wasn't able to see him through the classroom door if I bent to the right angle.…
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    Christopher P. Mooney, coach, driver, family, flash, flash fiction, guilt, mental health, micro fiction, passenger, PTSD, short stories, short story, suicide, train, vss via Pocket
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    D. Brody Lipton, dad, family, fish, fishing, flash, flash fiction, grandfather, micro fiction, short stories, short story, son, vss The pier is crowded. People hunch shoulder to shoulder in the fog, skinny fishing poles bobbing like willows. via Poc…
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Carmelita Rules the Southern Wastes | Spelk - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 25 Sep 19
     
    flash, flash fiction, Man, micro fiction, money, panhandlers, people, safety, short stories, short story, Steve Passey, store, vss, world He's an environmentalist protesting the construction of a pipeline and handing out pamphlets. He hands me a pam…
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How to Pack a Suitcase with Zero Baggage | Spelk - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 25 Sep 19
     
    break, clothes, flash, flash fiction, gadgets, liberation, micro fiction, passengers, Paul Thompson, security, short stories, short story, suitcase, vss, weightless Packing a suitcase is easy. Keeping to the essentials, less so. via Pocket
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    age, flash, flash fiction, life, micro fiction, Mitchell Waldman, old, plane, relationships, short stories, short story, vss, youth He's an old man, nearing the end. via Pocket Old Man | Spelk via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2OOZbrd
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  • Sunny Jackson on 31 Jan 20
     
    Adam Shaw, children, eggs, flash, flash fiction, husband, marriage, micro fiction, old age, short stories, short story, vss, wife Gilbert's particular about his eggs. I'm cooking them when he walks in, just as I have every morning for the past 53 ye… Sunny Side Up - Spelk via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2E94ApP
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#WeekendRead - Sibongile Fisher's "A Door Ajar" - Short Story Day Africa - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 26 Sep 18
     
    Our #WeekendRead is your first chance to read part of Migrations. Enjoy the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize winning story, "A Door Ajar". "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. via Pock… #WeekendRead - Sibongile Fisher's via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nWue9H
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The Vortex Blaster (short story) - Bibliowiki - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 26 Sep 18
     
    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org P… The Vortex Blaster (short story) - Bibliowiki via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Mv5raD
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"Space Leek," a new short story by Chen Qiufan. - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 25 Sep 19
     
    Each month, Future Tense Fiction-a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives-publishes a story on a theme. The theme for April-June 2019: space s…
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Reproduction in a Closed Loop - Andrew M LeBlanc - Metaphorosis Magazine - 0 views

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    Reproduction in a Closed Loop - Andrew M LeBlanc - Metaphorosis Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2CsFV0W The first iteration of General's life ends with the extinction of the human race. The third, fourth, and fifth iterations fare better, but even knowledge of its past iterations is not enough for General (Gen for short) to change the course of the wa…
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  • The only things that would have helped were a crash course in London during the Blitz and a little more time. I had not gotten either.
  • Mr Bartholomew
  • Dunworthy
  • ...51 more annotations...
  • He didn't seem to expect me to answer his outburst, which was good, because I had understood perhaps one key word in three.
  • Two days, and the esteemed Dunworthy, who wanted to talk about the sacred burdens of the historian
  • Kivrin
  • ARP. Air Raid Precautions. Of course.
  • "Did you go to see Dunworthy?" she said. "Yes. You want to know what priceless bit of information he had for me? 'Silence and humility are the sacred burdens of the historian.'
  • The biggest problem with using memory-assistance drugs to put information into your long-term memory is that it never sits, even for a microsecond, in your short-term memory, and that makes retrieval complicated, not to mention unnerving. It gives you the most unsettling sense of déjâ vu to suddenly know something you're positive you've never seen or heard before.
  • That brief, sometimes microscopic, time information spends in short-term is apparently used for something besides tip-of-the-tongue availability. The whole complex sort-and-file process of retrieval is apparently centered in the short-term
  • If and when I could retrieve the information, I would know it. Till then I was as ignorant of it as if it were not stored in some cobwebbed corner of my mind at all.
  • "Anyway, I'm willing to try this idea if you think it will help." She looked at me with that martyred expression and said, "Nothing will help."
  • But I tried it anyway.
  • "Your endorphin levels aren't back to normal yet," I told myself and tried to relax, but that was impossible
  • those are real bullets, kid. Just because you're a history major doing his practicum doesn't mean you can't get killed.
  • Surely I could get through the first day without mishap, I thought, and now here I was, stopped cold by almost the first word that was spoken to me.
  • Just as I had almost gotten up the courage to knock, he opened the door
  • it really was over quickly and without pain
  • I handed him my letter and he shook my hand
  • I know, I know: Keep your mouth shut. The sacred silence
  • "Mr Bartholomew's just got in from Wales," he said. "He's come to join our volunteers."
  • Langby showed me round, pointing out various dimnesses in the general gloom
  • He told me I don't have to stand a watch the first night and suggested I go to bed, since sleep is the most precious commodity in the raids. I could well believe it. He was clutching that silly pillow to his breast like his beloved.
  • So here I sit, waiting for my first air raid siren and trying to get all this down before I turn into one of the walking or non-walking dead.
  • A tart is either a pastry or a prostitute
  • Bourgeois is a catchall term for all the faults of the middle class
  • Ayarpee I could not find under any spelling and I had nearly given up when something in long-term about the use of acronyms and abbreviations in wartime popped forward
  • but even knowing it will all be over in a moment and you won't feel a thing doesn't make it any easier to say, "Now!"
  • Now that I'm past the first shock of being here, I realize that the history department neglected to tell me what I'm supposed to do
  • They handed me this journal, the letter from my uncle, and ten pounds of pre-war money and sent me packing into the past
  • Till then I live here in the crypt
  • I must also accomplish the purpose of this practicum, whatever it may be.
  • I am apparently not one of the lucky ones
  • periodically cursing various government agencies
  • It feels like November and looks it, too, bleak and cheerless with no sun.
  • I said something, but it was not what I intended
  • He hauled me violently free
  • Memory retrieval: ARP manual. Symptoms of bombing victims.
  • Stage one - shock; stupefaction; unawareness of injuries; words may not make sense except to victim.
  • Stage two - shivering; nightmares; nausea; injuries, losses felt; return to reality.
  • Stage three - talkativeness that cannot be controlled; desire to explain
  • it isn't just the sacred silence of the historian that stops me
  • There was reference tonight to a UXB
  • I don't see how I can hope to remember the right information until I know what it is I am supposed to do
  • There are no guidelines for historians
  • I could murder Hitler if I could get to Germany. Or could I? Time paradox talk abounds
  • Is there a tough, immutable past? Or is there a new past every day and do we, the historians, make it?
  • Must we interfere boldly, hoping we do not bring about all our downfalls? Or must we do nothing at all
  • All those are fine questions for a late-night study session. They do not matter here.
  • I could no more let St Paul's burn down than I could kill Hitler. No, that is not true. I found that out yesterday in the Whispering Gallery. I could kill Hitler if I caught him setting fire to St Paul's.
  • It was a wonder I hadn't told her not to cry.
  • It's only by luck that I haven't made some unforgivable mistake so far, and this is not because I can't get at the long-term memory.
  • It's only a matter of time before I am stopped cold by something I do not know. Nevertheless, I am going to try
  • I have just come down from the roofs. I am still shaking.
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    PodCastle 573: The Court Magician Author : Sarah Pinsker Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published by Lightspeed and a 2019 Hugo Finalist for Best Short Story. Rated PG-… The boy who will become court magician this time is not a cruel child. Not like the last one, or the one before her. He never stole money from Blind Carel's cup, or thrashed a smaller child for sweets, or kicked a dog. via Pocket
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