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Category: Crime

Dawg (Story by Risa Peris)

November 20, 2019 Brian Coyle

Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life? Ah, if thou issueless…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

In Honor of the Day of the Dead (Story by Risa Peris)

November 1, 2019 Brian Coyle

  Dita and the House of Faces Dita lives in an old and quite dusty Victorian mansion, stuffed precariously on…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Family, Fiction Filed under: family, fiction

Never Leaving Wonderland (Story by Risa Peris)

October 31, 2019 Brian Coyle

Composed and performed by Risa Peris   All in all, it was a white rabbit that got me in trouble.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction

No (Story by Risa Peris) (A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1)

October 29, 2019 Brian Coyle

“Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy Self thy foe, to thy sweet…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction Filed under: crime, family, fiction

Funeral (Story by Risa Peris)

October 21, 2019 Brian Coyle

  I was the coffin maker’s daughter. Papa made the most lovely coffins. Deep, roomy, lined in French silk, smoothed…

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Posted in: Crime, Family, Fiction, Horror

Jezebelle (Story by Risa Peris)

October 1, 2019 Brian Coyle

The sky was yellowing. It looked like an egg yolk and the steamy air made it melt – ooze as…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction

Belligerent and Stupid (Story by Risa Peris)

September 25, 2019 periswriter 1 Comment

Sweet, stupid people like to take their information lying down. Like supplicants opening their arms to the strange heaven that…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction

Cotton Alms (Story by Risa Peris)

September 23, 2019 periswriter

Before my father taught be about cotton alms, he spoke of the Devil. “Get thee behind me, Devil,” said he.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction

Ghost (Story by Risa Peris)

September 17, 2019 periswriter

I think he was a ghost. He walked towards. Thump, thump. His male member, that strange thing, swung like a…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Ghost Story
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Decision Time (bp coyle)

June 24, 2019 coylewriter

It’s not the heat keeping me awake tonight, though it is a hot night. I wonder if they are sleeping,…

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Posted in: Crime

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