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Category: Fiction

Puffin (Story by Risa Peris)

July 28, 2020 Brian Coyle

It was more shadows than complete darkness. I could see outlines of things if they were very near me. I…

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Posted in: Crime, Dark Humour, Fiction

Flies (Story by Risa Peris)

July 21, 2020 Brian Coyle

Around midday, the sky darkened with flies. They filled the sky with annoyance and doom. Maybe this was the end.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Folklore, Horror

The Books (Story by Risa Peris)

July 10, 2020 Brian Coyle

  “Sergei…I was able to make some thin soup out of the two potatoes and one carrot I scavenged for.…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

The Soul (Story by Risa Peris)

June 28, 2020 Brian Coyle

“No, you dimwit. Shirts go to the left and pants to the right.” The aging, overweight woman in a regulation…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

The Gathering (Story by Risa Peris)

June 15, 2020 Brian Coyle

“Have you found Braxton?” I was tearful and shivering. The interrogation room I was in had a constant flow of…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Horror, Marriage

The Flood (Story by Risa Peris)

June 2, 2020 Brian Coyle

The rain began on Monday. A light drizzle that became an insistent downpour. My husband tended to the farm as…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Relationships

Blue (Story by Risa Peris)

May 21, 2020 Brian Coyle

I was painted blue. War time blue. I was like all my Pictish clan. We were to storm Hadrian’s Wall.…

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Posted in: Adventure, Fiction, History, Religion

Deep Shrug (Story by Risa Peris)

May 19, 2020 Brian Coyle

I was quite alone on the train. A nurse in pale gray heading for South England. I was called on…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political
Jim Woessner

Seat 23A, Seat 23B (story by Jim Woessner)

May 12, 2020 coylewriter

Mac boarded a flight in Boston. Bailey caught one out of New York. They changed planes in Chicago and sat…

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Posted in: Fiction, Humour, Relationships
Vitalia Strait

AWWWFULLY ROMANTICK (story by Vitalia Strait)

May 9, 2020 coylewriter

Nancy sipped her tea and exhaled. “Maybe I have depression. Wouldn’t that be awfully romantic?” She dragged the “aw” and…

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Posted in: Fiction

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