HOW TO CRY
CW: Discussion of anxiety SHAMEFULLY The heel of her hand pressed hard against her cheekbone, wiping upward, switching to dabbing at the…
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Little Fire
“I feel that way too sometimes, it’s like a little fire,” my friend said, reaching over to steal a chip from my plate. I…
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Marlon Brando Lips
Recently I’ve been waking up with the knowledge that you’re dead. Before, there had been those first few moments of innocence on awakening, when…
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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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