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  • Sudden Stop

    It’s not the fall that kills you….“Hey, Lisl I got a weird reading here?” Bernie asked.“Just bag it and tag it Bernie. We got three of these old dogs to break down,” Lisl answered without looking up.Bernie shrugged and went back to wiping the ship hard drive.Space Cruiser Endurance, nicknamed Dorie by her many crews,

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  • New Sheriff In Town: Reunion

    Django twirled a stylus through his fingers as the holographic sun dipped into the holographic sea. Under her long black lashes, Myrtle watched him. She could still see the baby he had been in his face. In silence mother and son watched the sunset from their porch.“The HOA showed a real nice one tonight, don’t

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  • New Sheriff in Town: Day of the Lepus

    “Hold on, hold on get this then the sailor said, ‘I should have never,” the officer started guffawing at his own joke.“Officer.” Myrtle’s voice was a whip the group of police froze and melted away. She approached the jokester. Myrtle focused on the thin aquamarine horizon line that marked the cool blue white of the

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  • Solitaire

    Queen of Hearts on King of Spades then Jack, the cursor moved quickly flipping electronic cards covered in dancing pineapples. Ring, ring.“Southern Pennsylvania Association of Superheroes and Paranormal Entities, this is Claudine.”“The world is going to end tonight….” The voice trailed off into hysterical laughter.“Okay is this Alien Technology or General Supervillain,” Claudine asked her

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  • I Like Butterflies

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  • New Sheriff in Town

    Vast whiteness stretched out like a blank page. Myrtle sat upright in the hover sedan, afraid to wrinkle her new uniform. Looking out the vehicle windows, she was reminded of the vids of deserts back on Olde Earth. As a little girl she had liked the dizzying colors of the tropics and feared the dark

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  • Daisy, Daisy

    Daisy’s hair was a rich brown halo of thick coils. With a rat tailed comb, her mother separated the locks into smaller sections. Daisy with her tablet in hand sat cross legged on a pillow on the kitchen floor as Thea bent to rub coconut oil into the child’s hair. Sunlight from the window over

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  • Pass the Gravy

    The clinking of silver rimmed fine china, the scrape of forks, the family dined. “Pass the turkey. No, I want dark meat.” “You took the biscuit I was going to eat.” “Today’s writing prompt is 10 things you are grateful for and then you write about one of those things,” Kim said. The sounds of

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  • No Place for Secrets

    Building Delta 34, Room: Sub-Basement 17 A, Location: Classified Time: 9:58 am TRANSCRIPT BEGIN Dr. A. Hartford: Transcript begin. Well it was mighty nice of you to show up on time. Dr. R. Spader: Screw you, it’s a holiday weekend. I should be up to my neck in annoying uncles and roast turkey. What’s the

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  • Fruits & Veg

    Pet waved bye bye to her old man. He waved back and turned quickly to pretend blow his nose. Pet knew he was crying. Old people are sentimental. Youngsters were more practical. Pet looked up at the weak sun and pretend wiped sweat from her brow. She steered her boat towards the sun. She sailed

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