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A Frugal Man (bp coyle)

November 8, 2019 coylewriter

My Grandfather died before I was born, I never got to know him. By all accounts he was a hard…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction
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I’m Not Sure Where I’ll Be Sleeping Tonight (bp coyle)

November 6, 2019 coylewriter

Jim’s a good friend, always has been, but I know when I am no longer welcome. I’ve been crashing on…

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The Image in the Lake (Story by Risa Peris)

November 5, 2019 periswriter

Story based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 But if thou live, remembered not to be, Die single and thine image dies…

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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
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Half Past Two (bp coyle)

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I check the clock again. Almost half past two in the morning. I put my book on the bedside dresser…

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King of the Road (bp coyle)

October 30, 2019 coylewriter

For as long as I recall, Uncle Davy sang ‘King of the Road’ at every family get together. No birthday…

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Something Special (bp coyle)

October 26, 2019 coylewriter

‘How do they feel Daddy?’ she asks me. How do they feel? Oh my God, these are the most comfortble…

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Limbo (bp coyle)

October 24, 2019 coylewriter 1 Comment

‘Oh Daddy, I wish my results would come. This waiting around is killing.’ ‘Almost there honey.’ ‘I just know I’ll…

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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
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Pipe Dream (bp coyle)

October 16, 2019 coylewriter 2 Comments

‘One day Daddy,’ my daughter Rose says as she washes up after dinner. ‘One day everything will be so much…

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