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Cycling to Armageddon

Don Gordon·September 1, 2022

Cycling to Armageddon written by: Don Gordon We stood in line with the other supplicants. The queue...

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Angel

Kate Aranda Nye·August 14, 2022

Angel written by: Kate Aranda Nye Scents of autumn filled the cooling ir as Amos Hyde emerged...

Blue Period

Jose Wan Diaz·April 23, 2022

Blue Period written by: Jose Wan Diaz In the year 1901, Paris, France crawled with starving artists. Art...

Literature English

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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