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love potion - bp coyle

Love Potion (bp coyle)

December 14, 2017 coylewriter

When the are small they throw stones at me, call me witch. But when they get older they sneak up…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Horror, Relationships
The Door - R C Peris

The Door (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

My name is Magda and when I was seven my brother and I discovered a door in the basement of…

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Posted in: Fantasy, Fiction
job satisfaction - bp coyle

Job Satisfaction (bp coyle)

coylewriter

They gave me a gun, with live ammunition. I was refused by the army and the police, some crap about…

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Posted in: Adult, Crime, Dark Humour
Mud - r c peris

Mud (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

He giggling and smashing mud between his hands. Little Eddie. He was enthralled by the mud. He was sitting in…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Parenting
Harbnger

Harbinger (bp coyle)

coylewriter

It always amazes me how soon the news hits home. How quickly the tears come. I suppose the uniform puts…

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Posted in: Dark Humour

Bad Day For Mommy (bp coyle)

coylewriter

She was three and ‘helping’ me make dinner. We were cooking stew and I had only the potatoes left to…

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Posted in: Family, Humour, Parenting
Inbox - bp coyle

Inbox (bp coyle)

coylewriter

I am just going to send the story in and then forget about it. It will take them days to…

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

Pretty, Pretty – Tales from the Jail I (story by R.C. Peris)

periswriter

It was the second jail cell that it happened. We were all in for a 24-hour jail term. We were…

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Posted in: Adult, Crime

Nothing Is Destroyed (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

The spaceship contained thirty-three humans. It had been in space for three hundred and thirty generations. Their knowledge of Earth…

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Posted in: Science Fiction

The Ministry of Non-Existence (story by R.C. Peris)

coylewriter

“As bitter as wormwood,” said the traveler. Lucy set a mug of root beer before him. She refilled his mug…

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Posted in: Fable, Fantasy, Horror, Religion, Satire

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