Category: fiction
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The Hot Shot
The Man Upstairs A Fictional Series JACK ROGERS, UNIT 104 I’ve been at Fourth and Main for a year and a half now. I love living here because it’s so close to the college. Plus my parents are paying the rent, so… hey… I can’t complain. It’s not a bad place, really. It just needs…
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A Sleepy Child
The Man Upstairs A Fictional Series CARLA FERNANDEZ, UNIT 102 My baby girl, Lucita, has been very difficult lately. Something is making her unhappy at night, and I cannot soothe her. I feed her, change her, rock her… and still, she cries into the darkness. When the sunrise peeks into her room, she stops crying.…
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Watch the World Burn
The Man Upstairs A Fictional Series LARRY FERGUSON, UNIT 101 I moved into Fourth and Main twenty years ago and it was the best complex in the city. At the time. Over the last few years the building has either gone to shit, or I’m just more particular about my surroundings. Maybe both. The pipes…
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Pretty in Pink
A Haiku Wind, blowing kisses, Pink skies, whispering a tune, Time, not forgotten. I started this image about a week ago. It was a simple remake of the famous “Marilyn’s dress flies up over a storm drain” or whatever it was she was standing on. I didn’t like my illustration too well, so I played…
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Spontaneous Combustion
Stories We Tell A Fictional Series When Delilah was nine or ten, Martin and I went through a rough patch. Martin thought that our life was too structured; that we had lost all spontaneity. He missed the unknowing, and all of the excitement that comes with acting on impulse. He said that his days had…
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Eternally Yours
Stories We Tell A Fictional Series At the age of twenty-two, I was weeks away from marrying Dylan – a young man I had been engaged to for a year – when he had sex with another woman. The two were found in the cloakroom of Eleven Palms – an upscale restaurant that we had…
a sprinkle of faith 