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Category: Fiction

whistling johnny - bp coyle

Whistling Johnny (bp coyle)

December 13, 2017 coylewriter

So there’s this guy, right? Livin’ in the next room to me. This place in a dump. Roaches, rats. Paper…

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Posted in: Fiction

P1239 (story by R.C. Peris)

December 12, 2017 periswriter

In my mother’s generation, there were human beings called men. Men were also fathers. I would have a father. It’s…

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Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction
Checklist - bp coyle

Checklist (bp coyle)

periswriter

Milk, milk, milk, I always forget to buy milk.  So sick of drinking sour stuff.  Yuck. Ham, eggs, fresh bread,…

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Posted in: Crime, Dark Humour, Fiction
Nine Hundred Books - bp coyle

Nine Hundred Books (bp coyle)

periswriter

I have read nine hundred books.  Yes, I have.  Cover to cover. I have them in my bookcases, on my…

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Posted in: Fiction, Humour

Do the Math (bp coyle)

periswriter

It is strange.  Words.  I know so many.  Yet seem unable to convey my meaning with any of them. I…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships

Brigid (story by R.C. Peris)

December 9, 2017 periswriter

On my knees, I breathe and through each breath, I pray. My God is not kind. He can be capricious…

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Posted in: Fable, Fiction, Religion

Ice (story by R.C. Peris)

periswriter

In the universe there are many galaxies. Some galaxies are spiral shaped. There is a spiral galaxy in an ordinary…

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Posted in: Fiction

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