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Author: Brian Coyle

Flies (Story by Risa Peris)

July 21, 2020 Brian Coyle

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

  “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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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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