short-story
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A Little Tail From The Tree-Burbs (a true story)
Good buddy of mine, Rick, from my long time ago galaxy far far away WVU days, posted to his Facebook at the end of the week about some commotion in his backyard between an owl and a pretty ballsy squirrel squaring off in a tree. As per Rick “After several minutes, the owl leaped —… Continue reading
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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 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
