57 minutes ago by amcgowan

Black Out by April McGowan ‘Singleness is a state of mind’ the sign read. Well, not only was Tracy single, she was also an orphan. Could you call yourself an orphan if your parents died after you were eighteen? It didn’t matter. No matter how old you were when your parents died, you felt like one. I ...

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2 hours ago by longshorttales

I may or may not come up with a proper ending to this story. View this document on Scribd

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2 hours ago by longshorttales

I may or may not write more stories with these “Pen-Men”. View this document on Scribd

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3 hours ago by Brice Stratford

Three weeks without sleep does things to you. Makes you think and say things that aren’t real, makes you believe what isn’t true. It’d been three weeks exactly when I told them that I did it, confused and alone. Three weeks without sleep, or without what you’d recognize as sleep. I’d lose time here ...

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5 hours ago by Jack Caldwell

Friday reading recommendations: Anything by Alistair MacCloud. One or more of the short stories at the Whistler Writers Group. MacCloud is a published Canadian author. A long time ago I read a magnificent short story by him about mining folk in eastern Canada. I cannot recall the name of the book or ...

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6 hours ago by wellcraftedtoo

When writers get rejections, we just get back up on that ol’ keyboard, and start pounding away again, right? Maybe you do, but not me, at least not today. Today I’m attending to my blog, which has been neglected recently. Here is a quote from John Irving that I liked so much I scribbled it into my b ...

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7 hours ago by corbyanderson

Shooting Swan By Corby Anderson “What is it?” asked Sam. Both of their heads were tilted upwards, watching the strange object buzz towards them. “It’s a drone. Be still Sami,” replied Tariq. To Sam, his older brother looked older – much older than his twelve years in the focused light of the sideway ...

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7 hours ago by taraSG

Hosted By : Well-Read Reviews [Story Title] Lost for Words [Author] Kenneth Yu [First Sentences] When she was young, the words flowed freely, fearlessly, seemingly forming on their own into sentences and paragraphs, pages upon pages, blending together until they became stories. Finish reading the st ...

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8 hours ago by tyromancer

There’s a railroaders club. Each owns a coach parked in a barn till they chain-hook to a dynamo and barrel up through Canada. In doomed glory they visit each other, tethered to the might of a hurtling behemoth, thundering across time. -Bob Zatko

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