Tag: Fiction
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Fall Days And Good Books
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark – New York Times Review American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn – Kirkus Reviews The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman – Washington Post Book Review
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Fog – Fifty Word Story
The gloomy fog of disinterest that shadowed her waking hours escalated into a running nightmare of despair once asleep. A barbed wire fence blocked every escape and the endless violent swirl of branches drawing blood from her arms offered the only proof in her daily existence that she was alive.
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Numb – 50 Word Story
She stood braced against the piercing wind as each biting blast stung the tears streaming down her frozen cheeks. Engulfed in frigid desolation, she tried to remember the happy days spent on their bench beneath the now barren tree, but only bleak despair greeted her spiritless eyes and numb soul.
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A Light For Lost Souls – 50 Word Story
The grandmothers and mothers had always found a way for the light to guide the lost souls home. The candles lit weekly at church with hope of a lost soul reaching salvation and lights left on throughout the house as darkness descended beckoning those without hope and nowhere to go.
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Smoldering
The phony smile remained fixed throughout the evening as she stationed herself near the french doors with a view of Lake Michigan and the grandfather clock across the room. Each chime of the clock corresponded with a tightening grip on her wine glass, which seemed moments away from shattering. The endless glass of Merlot and […]
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Memories of Laughter
The only sound in the lobby on that late Friday evening was the clicking of Gabrielle’s heels as she crossed the marble tile and a wish for a good weekend from the security guard, Derek, as she reached the revolving door. The intensity of the wave of heat that greeted Gabrielle as she exited the […]
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Fog Of Despair
The summertime storm that had been promised for the last seven days finally made its appearance with a vengeance as Max reached the canopy covering the doorway to the Claddagh Irish Pub. The steam from the street mixed with the pelting rain and the smoke from Max’s Marlboro as he watched Main Street empty at […]