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Author: Brian Coyle

Flies (Story by Risa Peris)

July 21, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

Around midday, the sky darkened with flies. They filled the sky with annoyance and doom. Maybe this was the end.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Folklore, Horror

The Books (Story by Risa Peris)

July 10, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

  “Sergei…I was able to make some thin soup out of the two potatoes and one carrot I scavenged for.…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

The Soul (Story by Risa Peris)

June 28, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

“No, you dimwit. Shirts go to the left and pants to the right.” The aging, overweight woman in a regulation…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

The Gathering (Story by Risa Peris)

June 15, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

“Have you found Braxton?” I was tearful and shivering. The interrogation room I was in had a constant flow of…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Horror, Marriage

The Flood (Story by Risa Peris)

June 2, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

The rain began on Monday. A light drizzle that became an insistent downpour. My husband tended to the farm as…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Relationships

Blue (Story by Risa Peris)

May 21, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

I was painted blue. War time blue. I was like all my Pictish clan. We were to storm Hadrian’s Wall.…

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Posted in: Adventure, Fiction, History, Religion

Deep Shrug (Story by Risa Peris)

May 19, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

I was quite alone on the train. A nurse in pale gray heading for South England. I was called on…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political

The Man from Ireland (Story by Risa Peris)

May 3, 2020 Brian Coyle 1 Comment

What a quiet and dark man. He was like something in the night sky that could barely be seen and…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health, Social Issues

The Great Fairy War (Story by Risa Peris)

April 23, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

One night Lucy, the Tooth Fairy, and Mary, the Tinkle Fairy, got into a fight as fairies tend to do.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction

This is My Plague Year (Story by Risa Peris)

April 3, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

At first, it was the rats that died. They cluttered the streets and alleys like putrid feces with fur. Their…

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Posted in: End of the World, Fiction, Horror, Mental Health, Social Issues

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