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No Plans To Be Smart - r c peris

No Plans to Be Smart (story by R.C. Peris)

January 2, 2018 periswriter

I need. I really need. I am needy. Some people don’t need anything at all. I need everything all at…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction
Nasty Little Infection

A Nasty Little Infection (bp coyle)

December 30, 2017 coylewriter

To: The Universal Parliament From: Center For Disease Control It has come to our attention that a large number of…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Humour, Science Fiction
help - r c peris

Help – (Story by R.C. Peris)

December 29, 2017 periswriter

The drive from the freeway to my home in Palos Verdes was long. Too long. Miles and miles by street.…

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Posted in: Fiction

It’s Just a Word (story by R.C. Peris)

December 26, 2017 periswriter

“And you’re a cunt,” mumbled the sluggish woman with a frown that made her look half-dead. Two of the mothers…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, Relationships

Christmas Story (bp coyle)

December 24, 2017 coylewriter

Every year Mother would say the same thing: ‘We have to invite her, we’re all the family she’s got.’ ‘But…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Humour

Happy Holidays!

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Meet the Author – bp coyle

December 23, 2017 periswriter

The author, when not writing, hunts for shadows in the hard light, has conversations with cats, catalogs his library of…

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A Little Holiday Abstraction

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Reducing the holiday spirit and getting philosophical.

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Meet Author – Ainsley Arin

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The author, when not writing, plays Broadway tunes on her green ukulele, dreams of having penguins as her roommates, and…

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Meet the Author – R.C. Peris

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The author, when not writing, dreams of having a chicken sanctuary, a sloth as a walking partner, and a refrigerator…

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