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Kayleigh Merchant·October 21, 2019

Access Denied In This Game, There Is No Easy Way Out written by: Kayleigh Merchant Stuck in...

Featured Post 13 Days of Halloween Poetry Halloween English

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The Gray River Bridge Incident

Doug Donnan·June 20, 2019

The Gray River Bridge Incident written by: Doug Donnan Southwest Missouri / The Springfield Plateau Region /...

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Haunted

Robyn MacKinnon·March 3, 2019

Haunted written by: Robyn MacKinnon @art_rat my house is haunted Everything I bought is black for powering...

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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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