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Category: Fiction

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We Need to Talk (bp coyle)

March 6, 2019 coylewriter

Derek phoned his wife from work. ‘We need to talk,’ he told her grimly. ‘Meet me in The Red Lion…

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Posted in: Fiction

The Hunter (Story by RIsa Peris)

March 5, 2019 periswriter

My father quieted me. I had been humming and there was the sound of my boots crunching on the snow…

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Posted in: Fiction, Folklore
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Cowboys (bp coyle)

March 4, 2019 coylewriter

There comes a time in everybody’s life when you realize that it just is not going to happen for you.…

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Carnavale (Story by Risa Peris)

March 3, 2019 periswriter

Rio de Janeiro – 2017 The streets were a mess. I was with my girlfriend, Tina, on vacation. It sounds…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction
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In the Neighbourhood. (bp coyle)

March 2, 2019 coylewriter 11 Comments

‘Remember Mr Harris from number thirty?’ my wife asked as she put my dinner on the table. Frozen pizza, burnt…

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Posted in: Fiction

Bahamas (Story by Risa Peris)

March 1, 2019 periswriter

It was a Bahamas trip for two. Me and my man. But then I caught him in the bathroom at…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

Breasts (Story by Risa Peris)

February 27, 2019 periswriter

My story with breasts began early. I wasn’t breastfed but when my mother hugged to her or clasped me to…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction
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Bad Joke (bp coyle)

February 26, 2019 coylewriter

‘A horse walks into a bar,’ Uncle Tony begins. ‘Oh God,’ I think, ‘here we go again.’ Somehow I always…

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Hot Read (Story by Risa Peris)

February 25, 2019 periswriter

It was an easy gig. Talk to the dead. See the future. Children go missing and I reach out to…

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The Puzzle (Story by Risa Peris)

February 23, 2019 periswriter

We were invited to my mother’s brother’s party. My uncle. He had worked for Pacific Gas and Electric and had…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction

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