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Category: Fiction

one man's foible - bp coyle

One Man’s Foible (bp coyle)

June 3, 2018 coylewriter

My Grandad drove the number 18 bus in Dublin, from Palmerstown to Sandymount and back again. The same route all…

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Posted in: Fiction, Humour

Rocket to Mars (R.C. Peris)

June 2, 2018 periswriter

The neighborhood nominated me. To travel on the rocket to Mars. Old Man Beets had been tinkering for a while…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, Science Fiction

Human (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 31, 2018 periswriter

They had been extracting blood for years after the human genome was mapped. Who are we? What culture or race…

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Posted in: Fiction, Travel

The Sound of a Ghost (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 29, 2018 periswriter

What sound does the sunrise make? Dr. Clark decided it was the sound of trickling water. He had a memory,…

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Posted in: Fiction, Travel
you disgust me - bp coyle

You Disgust Me (bp coyle)

May 28, 2018 coylewriter

I was reading Norwegian Wood for the third time and lost in it. I was sitting in a small cafe…

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Posted in: Fiction, Humour

Another Universe (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 27, 2018 Brian Coyle

It’s hard to say when I fell in love or even if it is an apt word to use. In…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

Listening (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 25, 2018 periswriter

You have to narrow your world to expand your world. I don’t know who told me that. Maybe I read…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

A Poison Gut Trip to the Getty (Story by R.C. Peris) [Longer Story]

May 23, 2018 periswriter

Babababa. Baaabaaabaaa. Corey squished his eyes shut tightly. It was there, somewhere. Not here, but elsewhere. He knew it. Bababa.…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction
ry baby cry - bp coyle

Cry Baby Cry (bp coyle)

May 22, 2018 coylewriter

Your heart would go out to them. They are hardly more than children themselves and with a baby that looks…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Parenting

Johnny B. Goode (Story by R.C. Peris)

May 21, 2018 periswriter

Voyager I was an investment in humanity’s hope. We are lonely and we want so desperately to know we are…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction

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