Tag: fiction
group name: suddenfiction
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November 28, 2006 06:53 AM EST --
Yesterday she had a dream about him. He was seen injured and lain unconscious on the stone bench of a park that was seemed familiar to her. He was her classmate in high school. He was always kind . . . more
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December 13, 2006 03:56 AM EST --
The Anesthetist signaled okay. The patient was shifted to the operating table from the amphitheatre. The Junior Doctors waited for the crash-landing of Prof. (Dr.) Narendran, their Department . . . more
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December 05, 2006 06:23 AM EST --
IT was raining heavily out side. An unexpected thunderbolt banged. Power went out. Mad winds pounded the doors and windows.
Normally he liked the untamed forces . . . more
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November 29, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
He sat in the Metro train to the airport with a swollen heart. His mind hesitated to give up hope and his eyes scanned each metro station for her.
She was his childhood friend. He met her again . . . more
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May 22, 2008 06:04 PM EDT --
She knew she was in trouble the day her husband died. She hadn't planned on that unexpected twist. If anyone knew her life, REALLY knew her life...on first observation they would see his . . . more
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September 21, 2007 08:00 AM EDT --
Would you rather I didn't see? Mae said, standing beside Brand who stood poised holding a gun at Claxton's head. Claxton was sitting in a chair bound by ropes around his arms. Brand‘s hand was . . . more
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December 05, 2006 07:46 PM EST --
Click here to read the short short story Crazy Glue, written by Etgar Keret, an Israeli author of several books, including The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God and The Nimrod Flipout. Many of his stories . . . more
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August 21, 2007 03:22 PM EDT --
Bonnie remembered the beatings; spankings; the nightly molestations in the dark room; the whispered taunts; drunken rages; head slaps against the walls; the far off calls of her mother downstairs.
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July 01, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
He watched her from his window overlooking the parking lot just as he watched her every single night. She would walk to her car, fiddle with her keys, look around a bit nervously, open the door and . . . more
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August 28, 2008 02:37 AM EDT --
“My first name is Daniel. I am unable to remember my last name. I am 12 years old. When I was 2 – so I was told – my mother sold me and my twin sister to the Master. I have a very ugly upper lip and he . . . more
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October 02, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
Riding a motorcycle can be exciting and if you are the back seat passenger it gets to be even a little more exciting. You pay attention to things the driver doesn't . . . more
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November 04, 2007 02:06 PM EST --
You push your penny in the slot; close it against the crowd outside the door. Why there is always a queue in the ladies lavatory, you have often mused, as you do now, as you disrobe, sit, and stare at . . . more
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August 26, 2008 04:30 AM EDT --
“Can you handle it?” he used to ask me.
I used to look him straight into the eyes and answer with a confidence based on nothing but my own pride “Of course I can!”
Of course I had no idea whether I . . . more
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September 04, 2007 02:46 AM EDT --
Was that them again? Lucy couldn’t decide. It may just be the mice, she thought. She closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. The sounds seemed like them; the words seemed like theirs. She gripped her hands . . . more
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September 02, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
April would have sent the flowers back with the note scribbled in the green ink across a card stuck inside the wrapped up bunch of irises, but she couldn’t be bothered. What the heck if the guy wants . . . more
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March 05, 2007 11:42 AM EST --
The Allergic Reaction
She’s beautiful, this girl, Donna is her name, and I keep eye contact despite the sharp headache it causes, twisting behind my right eyeball. I refuse to look . . . more
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August 31, 2007 03:22 AM EDT --
Louise sat on the desk with the typewriter close to her leg; her elbow resting on the top of it; a pencil in her hand, looking down at the sheet of paper that Louis had her write. Louis stood looking . . . more
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February 15, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
First of all, I have to say a word or two about being single and unattached on Valentine's Day. It sucks.
Not only does it suck, it isn't a day I can just forget . . . more
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August 06, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
If Adam looks the guy in the face and shrugs, “I don’t know his name, dude,” then no one knows him.
Every other day, he walks into the camping store, itching his grimy scalp with long . . . more
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October 12, 2007 03:40 AM EDT --
There’s a hold on the 49th offensive line
A fumble is decided for the winning team
No one pays attention to me as I slowly semi-nude pass through the room
Screaming and yelling . . . more
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