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Pros and Cons (bp coyle)

October 28, 2019 coylewriter

My mother always told me that, when faced with a really big decision, I should make out a list of…

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Posted in: Relationships
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Something Special (bp coyle)

October 26, 2019 coylewriter

‘How do they feel Daddy?’ she asks me. How do they feel? Oh my God, these are the most comfortble…

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Posted in: Family

Crow Missive (Poem by Risa Peris)

October 25, 2019 Brian Coyle

Music composed by Beethoven performed by Risa Peris   that’s all you need sometimes a suggestion of death like upselling…

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Posted in: Fiction, Poem Filed under: childhood, death, poem, suicide
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Limbo (bp coyle)

October 24, 2019 coylewriter 1 Comment

‘Oh Daddy, I wish my results would come. This waiting around is killing.’ ‘Almost there honey.’ ‘I just know I’ll…

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Posted in: Family

Green (Story by Risa Peris)

October 23, 2019 Brian Coyle

Music composed and performed by Risa Peris     Like a beast from worn, ancient hills and hidden caves riddled…

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Posted in: Fiction, Poem Filed under: Adam and eve, bible, fiction
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Gossip (bp coyle)

October 22, 2019 coylewriter

I sighed quietly after opening the gate and discovering my wife sipping coffee on the porch with her sister. It…

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Posted in: Fiction

Funeral (Story by Risa Peris)

October 21, 2019 Brian Coyle

  I was the coffin maker’s daughter. Papa made the most lovely coffins. Deep, roomy, lined in French silk, smoothed…

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Posted in: Crime, Family, Fiction, Horror
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Rags (bp coyle)

October 20, 2019 coylewriter

She came one summer to stay with her maiden aunt who lived next door to me. I was ten, she…

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Posted in: Childhood
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Vegetarians (bp coyle)

October 18, 2019 coylewriter

‘Oh God, I’m so sorry. I really don’t know what happened.’ ‘Well, at least we won’t have to worry about…

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Posted in: Dark Humour

Dirge for the Unknown (Story by Risa Peris)

October 17, 2019 periswriter

  Mack the Knife was a dirge. Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin made it jazzy, catchy – an insidious song…

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Posted in: Fiction, Ghost Story

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