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A Slow Day

A Slow Day (bp coyle)

April 22, 2021 coylewriter

Wow, it’s been a very slow day. The slow days are the worst around here, which is strange when you…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family
Marc Littman

Buried Dreams (story by Marc Littman)

January 26, 2021 coylewriter

We buried my brother with his dreams. On colored scraps of paper my young son, Teddy, and I scrawled all…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, Humour
Beware The Beast

Beware The Beast (story by Aidan Coyle)

January 20, 2021 coylewriter

Confusion and chaos lifted. All was still and clear in his mind. Only hours earlier he was filled with misery,…

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Posted in: Horror
Career Choice (story by Eliza Mimski)

Career Choice (story by Eliza Mimski)

January 19, 2021 coylewriter 1 Comment

In eighth grade, I wore tons of make-up to Catholic school. I was a rebel. Trying to hide my outbreaks,…

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Posted in: Childhood
Purple Hands (story by Aidan Coyle)

Purple Hands (story by Aidan Coyle)

January 11, 2021 coylewriter

When I was a small child my grandparents would take me blackberry picking. It was usually late August when the…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family

A Very Covid Carol (Story by Risa Peris)

December 24, 2020 Brian Coyle

No amount of education and training can prepare you for death or a pandemic. I knew a doctor who went…

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Posted in: COVID-19, Fiction, Holiday

The Mundane Egg (Story by Risa Peris)

November 5, 2020 Brian Coyle

According to a book I read, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hindus, and Japanese believed the Earth hatched from a mundane egg.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fable, Fiction

My Dream of a Computer (Story by Risa Peris)

October 20, 2020 Brian Coyle

I had only one job – decipher a human being from a computer. I was a professor of philosophy with…

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Posted in: Fiction, Futuristic, Science Fiction

The Answer (Story by Risa Peris)

October 8, 2020 Brian Coyle

It was deemed the “The Answer”. Algae. It has been present on Earth for about a billion years. It was…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction Filed under: algae, environment
bp coyle, brian

Letter to the People of the 21st Century (bp coyle)

October 3, 2020 coylewriter 2 Comments

End of Term Class Project: 14th May 2403 A Letter to the People of the 21st Century Hey guys! I…

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Posted in: Science Fiction

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