short-story
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Malky Fisch And The Temperamental Town (story start – working title)
(FOREWARD: I get a lot of Spam phone calls, calls that vary in my caller ID between numbers I don’t recognize or invented names/random businesses/places to make the call appear, I guess, legitimate and thus raising the chances that I’ll answer. Mostly I just slide straight to dismiss and be done with it but, sometimes… Continue reading
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From Tom To Dust (6 sentence story)
From this past week came a prompt from GirlieOnTheEdge for another Six Sentence Story. I haven’t done one of these in a little while but I liked the prompt word of “Dust” so I thought I would join in. ////////////////////////////////////////// From Tom to Dust Bill stood just outside the small circle of those gathered, Father Malin,… Continue reading
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The Cat and Percy the Rat that Fell from the Flat … Earth (song)
(so do you have 3 and a half minutes? sure ya do) A week or so ago my pal Rick, a bestest of mine going on 40 years now, back to our WVU days, posted this to the Facebook: FB JUST INVITED ME TO JOIN NOT MY 1ST OR 2ND BUT 4TH FLAT EARTH… Continue reading
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Ricky & I (short story – beginnings / revisit for Halloween week)
And another, my second to last one, for this week and me revisiting some creepy or creepy adjacent things of mine on a daily for this Halloween week. Back to April of last year. ////////////////////////////////////////// April 27, 2024 Ricky & I We watched them warily, Ricky and I, and held back at a safe distance… Continue reading
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The Scrapbook And The Man In The Black Fedora (Flash Fiction revisit for this Halloween Week)
And continuing with revisiting a poem or a story every day this week that fit a creepy theme as we approach Halloween. This one from a Flash Fiction prompt, August of last year. ////////////////////////////////////////// August 12, 2024 It’s Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing Prosery, the very short piece of prose… Continue reading
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The Wind and the “Epistle” (revisit a Six Sentence Story for this Halloween Week)
And another revisit of something for the season this last week of Halloween. ////////////////////////////////////////// February 21, 2025 Earlier in the week I came across someone new to me through Sadje, a friend at dVerse Poets. She is GirlieOnTheEdge and offers prompts for Six Sentence Stories, an idea I liked, like some of the 144 word Flash… Continue reading
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Mr Spidey Pants (post post)
So a number of nights ago I noticed, as I sat at my desk workin’ stuff in my basement Attic, that I had some company scurrying next to my lamp and possibly sizing up whether he could lift and then beat me to death with it. Now, possible ill intentions aside, I left him to… Continue reading
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Headstone & The Walk (short fictions)
Well, with it being that time of year for these types of stories I thought to revisit a short bit from last year, one I have posted before in a couple of spots and one that started with a dVerse Poets “prosery” prompt from June of 2024 and also to liberally revise the second part… Continue reading
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A New Captain’s Chair To Cardan Four (simple post about a chair)
Finally got myself the new PC chair I’ve been wanting. The old one, though of sentimental value, really needed to be retired, not completely, but at least to a different corner of this room, a sort of studio apartment in my sister’s basement, it has a small fridge an air fryer and a microwave so… Continue reading
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The Wind And The “Epistle” (six sentence story)
Earlier in the week I came across someone new to me through Sadje, a friend at dVerse Poets. She is GirlieOnTheEdge and offers prompts for Six Sentence Stories, an idea I liked, like some of the 144 word Flash Fiction prompts you can find at dVerse, though with six sentences allowed that gives me a bit… Continue reading
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