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Screens In Between

Published Nov 20, 2020 · 916 words (4 minutes) · 138 views

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Thilly and Beaumain found each other online, and want to meet, but the world has ended, and they cannot. Thilly has an idea for how to make it work.

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Carrow Narby

Instar

Published Sep 10, 2020 · 1,664 words (7 minutes) · 1 like · 75 views

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There wasn’t any kind of initiation waiting for me. It was on my own and by creeping increments that I realized I had become a thing.

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Joachim Heijndermans

Swan Pimp

Published Sep 6, 2020 · 2,206 words (9 minutes) · 149 views

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Two tourists brave Amsterdam's red light district, when they run afoul the girl's local guardian; the swan pimp.

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Matthew Claxton

All the Turns of the Earth

Published Sep 2, 2020 · 2,434 words (9 minutes) · 246 views

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Time loses its grasp on people, misplaces them…

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Even though it was cloudy, I decided to give it a try. Launch was delayed a bit due to lightning in the area. The picture was taken a my campsite at River Ranch Fl. Figured a long exposure to add some star trails.

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Manuel Royal

Old Papaw's Viewing

Published May 20, 2020 · 1,003 words (4 minutes) · 126 views

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Cherish your loved ones. Also, you deserve a brownie.

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Nathan Susnik

Tōhoku

Published Apr 15, 2020 · 501 words (2 minutes) · 3 likes · 345 views

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Struggling with the grief of losing her parents in the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Ayumi finds a telephone and line back into life.

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One of the display units at the Discovery Center of the Centennial Hall.

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Steven Savile

The Fragrance of You

Published Apr 10, 2020 · 5,163 words (19 minutes) · 182 views

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The death of a beloved children's writer, Hoke Berglund, draws Jon Sieber into a world he cannot hope to understand - a world filled with Hoke's creations...

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Steven Savile

Idiot Hearts

Published Apr 9, 2020 · 7,633 words (28 minutes) · 1 like · 320 views

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In 2001, I won the Writers of the Future. Part of the prize was a workshop with Tim Powers. We were tasked to write a 24 hr story based upon a randomly assigned object (in my case a bench) and a random interview with a stranger on Hollywood Boulevard (mine had just been arrested for trying to bribe a police officer with donuts). This was the result. Unedited, not a word tweaked, exactly as it came out of my head in a frenzied 5 hrs of ‘please god don’t let me be the first one to fail...’

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