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Category: Fiction

Order Me A Milkshake (story by R.C. Peris)

December 16, 2017 coylewriter

God, I loved him. I told him we were soul mates two weeks after knowing him. We were close. Constant…

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Posted in: Fiction, Mystery, Relationships
Bird Girl - r c peris

Bird Girl (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

When King Maxos died a great raft was built, burial garments were sewn, animals were slaughtered, the gods and spirits…

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Posted in: Fantasy, Fiction
pretty pretty tales from jail i - r c peris

Spanx – Tales from the Jail II (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

Her eyebrows were so pale they blended in with her ivory skin and gave her face a ghostly, alarmed look.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

Strange Country (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

Sanity is a strange country. Everything is right side up and manageable. You don’t get too mad there. You don’t…

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Posted in: Crime, Family, Fiction, Parenting, Relationships, Religion
cold one - r c peris

Cold One (story by R.C. Peris)

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She was a cold one. My doctor. A few months ago she told me not to have children. “Much too…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting
dreams - r c peris

Dreams (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

I was a miner and the government seized the mine when the French withdrew. I had no wages for two…

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Posted in: Fiction
train ride - rc peris

Train Ride (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

Oh, I did not like that nurse. They assigned her to me. She was hired by the hospital administrator. She…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Relationships
not tonight - bp coyle

Not Tonight (bp coyle)

coylewriter

Working at Air, Sea & Mountain Rescue Control Center for all of these years as I have, I’ve encountered some…

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Posted in: Fiction, Humour
dirty - r c peris

Dirty (Story by R.C. Peris)

December 15, 2017 periswriter

My father was dying. My mother sent me a text. I was in Zaire giving vaccines. I couldn’t secure a…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, History
Taken - R. C. Peris

Taken (story by R.C. Peris)

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In the summer of my tenth year, kids went missing. Kids went missing all the time but it seemed it…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Parenting

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