Tag: short story
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Everything Zen
The Man Upstairs A Fictional Series STAN PHILIPS, UNIT 103 I hear Jack’s been talking smack again. Don’t believe everything he says. I’m not high half the time – just once or twice a week, and that’s it. Hey, a man’s gotta unwind now and then, and cannabis works for me. Everybody’s got something you…
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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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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 