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Category: Fiction

Dirge for the Unknown (Story by Risa Peris)

October 17, 2019 periswriter

  Mack the Knife was a dirge. Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin made it jazzy, catchy – an insidious song…

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Posted in: Fiction, Ghost Story

The Fire (Story by Risa Peris)

October 15, 2019 periswriter

The hay and crops were on fire, but I turned my back on the haunting flames. Men were flinging buckets…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships, Romance

The Moon and The Fish (Story by Risa Peris)

October 11, 2019 periswriter

He would encircle me in his arms and heft me up near shoulders. “The moon,” I would yell. It seemed…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction
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He’s The One For Me (bp coyle)

October 10, 2019 coylewriter

I met that nice man from next door this evening, we usually end up putting out our bins at the…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships

Cold (Story by Risa Peris)

October 9, 2019 periswriter

On a cold day, they stuck him in a cold coffin in the cold ground with the cold birds fluttering…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction, Parenting
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Jack (bp coyle)

October 8, 2019 coylewriter

The man looks frantic, on the point of tears. ‘Sorry to bother you,’ he begins. ‘Did anyone hand in a…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction

Is This Irony? (Story by Risa Peris)

October 7, 2019 periswriter

I dread teaching irony. My students were always confused and I was constantly trying to come up with a unique…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting, Relationships

Sloth (Story by Risa Peris)

October 5, 2019 periswriter

“I was obliged to work hard. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed just as well.” -Bach No. I’m not getting…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Bach, orchestra, violin

Words (Story by Risa Peris)

October 3, 2019 periswriter

You never cared for words, did you? I knew it. The moment I saw you. You zinged me. Like a…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance Filed under: death, love, poems

Flowers (bp coyle)

October 2, 2019 coylewriter

‘Have you been to the graveyard recently?’ ‘No. I’m not like you, going every Sunday without fail.’ ‘Well, sadly we…

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Posted in: Fiction

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