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Category: Fiction

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The Ring (story by G. W. Bael)

May 7, 2020 coylewriter 1 Comment

Its size was large yet reasonable, its edges filed away to form a perfect circle of crystal. It possessed a…

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Posted in: Fiction

The Man from Ireland (Story by Risa Peris)

May 3, 2020 Brian Coyle 1 Comment

What a quiet and dark man. He was like something in the night sky that could barely be seen and…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health, Social Issues

The Great Fairy War (Story by Risa Peris)

April 23, 2020 Brian Coyle

One night Lucy, the Tooth Fairy, and Mary, the Tinkle Fairy, got into a fight as fairies tend to do.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction
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A Happy Story (bp coyle)

April 18, 2020 coylewriter

Tell me a story please. I asked. I could really do with someone telling me a story. Okay then. She…

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Posted in: Creativity, Fiction
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The First (story by Stewart Lindh)

April 14, 2020 coylewriter 1 Comment

Mark was eight; playing with boys he met while visiting his aunt. They took off down the slumbering summer streets…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fiction
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Looking Down (story by Jim Woessner)

April 7, 2020 coylewriter

“What’s going on?” It was a uniformed Bridge Patrol officer dismounting his bicycle in the center of the span. “It’s…

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Posted in: Creativity, Dark Humour, Fiction

This is My Plague Year (Story by Risa Peris)

April 3, 2020 Brian Coyle

At first, it was the rats that died. They cluttered the streets and alleys like putrid feces with fur. Their…

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Posted in: End of the World, Fiction, Horror, Mental Health, Social Issues

Girl (Story by Risa Peris)

March 22, 2020 Brian Coyle

She was a nervous, fastidious girl who generally looked miserable if one could not see her eyes, because in her…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

The Body (Story by Risa Peris)

March 17, 2020 periswriter

I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Social Issues

Vials and Powder (Story by Risa Peris)

March 9, 2020 periswriter

New York City, 1901 From the Lab Book of Dr. Cranston Hastings, General Surgeon at Merriam Hospital. February 2 A…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mental Health

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