Blood
I’ve never had to prepare so much to take a shit. I gotta get a fresh pad, fill up the watering-can you bought me…
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So long, Mr Peters
Coach Peters was less creepy dead, somehow, than when he was alive. Which was funny, because on the face of it nothing had changed….
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Magic Fingers
Roger doesn’t know that Kaitlin has magic fingers. He looks at them, entwined in his own, and thinks they are just regular girl fingers….
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Beyond & Within
Aliens aren’t real in the sense that nothing is real. The only thing you can be certain of knowing is your own mind. “I…
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A Working Family
The mother told the child to ask the father if the child’s friend could come over tomorrow so that the two children could finish…
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Kardashian, and Other Tragedies
This is an ongoing fiction column about celebrity culture by Patrick Lenton. This month’s short story is entitled JIM KARDASHIAN. Before 2017 you…
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I Heart Eowyn
Dear Diary, Sometimes I wish that Middle Earth was real. Sometimes I wish I lived in Hobbiton, with Frodo and Sam and Merry…
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Dissonance
JANUARY ‘Don’t tell me you’re still thinking about Auschwitz? We’ve been back for two hours. I knew you were too sensitive to go.’ The…
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Cold Comfort, Cherry Blossom
Over Cluain Cearbán way they’d never called her by any name but Cold. Warped from when she was a babby, couldn’t get her mouth…
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