Category: short stories
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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…
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Learning to Fly
Stories We Tell A Fictional Series After my mother passed away, I was totally without family. I never knew my biological father, and my mother had no relatives to speak of. She never talked about her past, so I had no idea if I had any family who were living – or where they might…
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The Release
Stories We Tell A Fictional Series When Delilah was about three or four, I lost her in the grocery store. I found her – thank God – and the whole ordeal makes for an amusing anecdote, but that’s not the story I want to share at the moment. After I told Levi what had happened,…
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The Tale of Ms. Maddie
It was 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, so Benny picked up his pace as he headed to his weekly tutoring session with Ms. Maddie. He knew she’d be furious. She despised tardiness, and he was already fifteen minutes late. Most of the students loved Ms. Maddie, especially the boys – since she was easy on the…
a sprinkle of faith 