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The Sunday Morning Girl

R Solino·August 30, 2016

The Sunday Morning Girl written: R. Solino @UniverSolino There was magic in that Sunday morning – or...

English

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The Comfort House Chronicles: The Corpse

RayFed·August 24, 2016

The Comfort House Chronicles: The Corpse written by: RayFed @MrRayFed I died on a Saturday in that awful...

English Literature

·3 mins read

Cookies From Home – A Father’s Love

RayFed·August 2, 2016

Cookies From Home – A Father’s Love written by: RayFed @MrRayFed Meredith saw Eric for the first time in...

English Literature

·3 mins read

Hank Moody and Dexter Morgan (Prophecy)

Adam W Redmon·July 25, 2016

Hank Moody and Dexter Morgan (Prophecy) written by: Hank Moody @AdamsWritings It started on a warm summer’s...

English

·1 min read

Freak Show: Step right on up!

RayFed·July 25, 2016

Freak Show: Step right on up! written by: RayFed @MrRayFed The fat man in an ugly big mustard-yellow...

Literature English

·9 mins read

A Subtle Death: The Trek of Sharing

RayFed·July 17, 2016

A Subtle Death: The Trek of Sharing written by: RayFed @MrRayFed I had been wondering why I was...

English Literature

·6 mins read

The Comfort House Chronicles: The Room

RayFed·July 9, 2016

The Comfort House Chronicles: The Room written by: RayFed @MrRayFed The falling beads of water momentarily caught the...

Literature English

·10 mins read

Ol’ Neddy’s Whiskey

Daniel S Liuzzi·July 8, 2016

Ol’ Neddy’s Whiskey written by: Daniel S. Liuzzi The leaves danced among the old headstones. Not many...

Literature English Featured Post

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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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The Sunday Morning Girl

The Comfort House Chronicles: The Corpse

Cookies From Home – A Father’s Love

Hank Moody and Dexter Morgan (Prophecy)

Freak Show: Step right on up!

A Subtle Death: The Trek of Sharing

The Comfort House Chronicles: The Room

Ol’ Neddy’s Whiskey

Santa’s Dead!

The War Within The Battle

The Mouse on the Hearth

Borrowed Shoes

The Yule Siege

Such Soulful Wailings

The Cities of the Dead

The Last Day Slips Into the Next

Life’s a Riot, Somehow

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Time Falls Silent

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