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Category: Fiction

A Very Covid Carol (Story by Risa Peris)

December 24, 2020 Brian Coyle

No amount of education and training can prepare you for death or a pandemic. I knew a doctor who went…

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Posted in: COVID-19, Fiction, Holiday

The Mundane Egg (Story by Risa Peris)

November 5, 2020 Brian Coyle

According to a book I read, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hindus, and Japanese believed the Earth hatched from a mundane egg.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fable, Fiction

My Dream of a Computer (Story by Risa Peris)

October 20, 2020 Brian Coyle

I had only one job – decipher a human being from a computer. I was a professor of philosophy with…

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Posted in: Fiction, Futuristic, Science Fiction

The Answer (Story by Risa Peris)

October 8, 2020 Brian Coyle

It was deemed the “The Answer”. Algae. It has been present on Earth for about a billion years. It was…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction Filed under: algae, environment

I Should Have Listened to My Mother (Story by Risa Peris)

October 2, 2020 Brian Coyle

I knew I should have stayed snug in my cave gorging on benthic fish or simply resting. That day, however,…

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: coelacanth, fishing, ocean

Not on Mars (Story by Risa Peris)

September 12, 2020 Brian Coyle

My name is Commander Jane Lance and I was not on Mars. The night before my three-year flight to Mars,…

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Posted in: Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction

Zebras (Story by Risa Peris)

September 7, 2020 Brian Coyle

I am a world-renowned diagnostician. I’m the person doctors call when patients are sick, remain sick, and fall on the…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health

Abnormal (Story by Risa Peris)

September 3, 2020 Brian Coyle

He was acting differently. He had a different smell. Moldy bread on some days and cinnamon on others. He quit…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction
Dumplings (story by Vivian Leung )

Dumplings (story by Vivian Leung )

August 16, 2020 coylewriter

It was only 2:00 in the morning. Finding that she could not go back to sleep, she slowly got out…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fiction

The Politician (Story by Risa Peris)

August 5, 2020 Brian Coyle

You see the thing about Yuri was that he was not a high-ranking or particularly effective KGB officer. Back in…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political

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