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davidbdale posted a blog entry

An Hour with the Ogre
We sit at a table in The Glade, a room named for the sappy paintings of pastoral scenes on its walls. Their grasses and trees...

2 days ago

Very Short Novels | Topics: 299 Words, Child, Family, Fiction

davidbdale posted a blog entry

Leaving Miller’s Farm
The children want to learn from me, but not until they know I’m someone with a knowledge. You’ll see at the assembly the...

9 days ago

Very Short Novels | Topics: 299 Words, Disability, Drinking, Drunk Driving

davidbdale posted a blog entry

The Gallagher-von-Durfeldoms
We are the family of everyone who means us no harm, whatever the results of what they do. We love Pizza Friday, snow days, and...

31 days ago

Very Short Novels | Topics: 299 Words, Culture, Destiny, Education

davidbdale posted a blog entry

An Offering
—Nevertheless you did kill him?—I was present at his death.—Present with a knife.—Mine was not the only hand on that...

56 days ago

Very Short Novels | Topics: 299 Words, Child, Confession, Crime

davidbdale posted a blog entry

Under the Bed
I had no magic as a child. I would have used it if I had, to stop the Boots from kicking me where I hid. Flat against the...

66 days ago

Very Short Novels | Topics: 299 Words, Child, Childhood, Danger

davidbdale posted a blog entry

Salt Toast
In photos of my daughter’s wedding, I look thinner than I was and not at all as if I wanted to strangle the groom. There...