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Arzoo Zaheer
Arzoo Zaheer posted a blog entry
The Secret PlayGround
 Isolated behind a thick forestation, part of Gage Park in Brampton, was a playground. A hidden playground: the one enters it...
5 hours ago Cercatore's Congeries | Topics: Short Stories
 
Chris Cade
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Planning to send out my newsletter tonight for http://www.Spiritual-Short-Stories.com - it's been too long since I've updated!
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry
Mitsubishi– the new Money Changers of the Temple
The test of America’s true sprit of independence will surface again as it has twice in history before. To the aide of the...
8 hours ago Charles George Taylor | Topics: short stories
 
Amir B
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تو چه میدونی …

میگی زندگیتو بچسب. موهام رو انقدر محکم میکشم عقب و جمع میکنم که انگار پوست سرم داره ور میاد. دلم می خواد دکمه تلفن رو بزنم تا صدات دیگه توی...
 
<em>weegine</em>
weegine posted a blog entry
Topsy Tuvy
Last week was definitely an experience. The week started with the usual Monday quizzes and ended with a long journey to...
 
DebKristy
DebKristy posted a blog entry
Motherhood as extreme makeover, by Deb Kristina
Is there a transformation more personal and dramatic than becoming a parent?My sister once said to me, “You’re a...
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Short Story Monday: My Mother, the Crazy African by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Short Story MondayMy Mother, the Crazy African, a short story, was written by Chimamanda N Adichie before she wrote and...
 
PressAbout
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Annotated Short Stories Published By Bottletre Books LLC: Bottletree® Books LLC, a l.. http://tinyurl.com/3rq24r
 
animos
animos posted a blog entry
The E-Mail Soul Eater
 Yesterday me and my best friend Amihan were shopping at the Mall for hats ( I love those old lady styled hats with...
 
Beth
Beth posted a blog entry
Cleaning and book day
I'm feeling better today, which is good because it's back to work for me tomorrow.Today I'm doing my laundry and cleaning,...
 
DrewGum
DrewGum posted a blog entry
Sitges, Sitges, Sitges….
So said the barwoman of the hotel terrace bar. We we looking down on the church, at a green laser light playing on the ground....
2 days ago DrewBlog | Topics: books, bums, literature, short stories
 
Ravyn
Ravyn posted a blog entry
A Tale of Writer’s Block
Some of you may go back far enough to remember the story of how the idea for this blog got started, with a debate with a...
 
Jamie Grove
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Ok, seriously time to go back outside and read. Enjoying Best American Short Stories 2008. Been awhile since I picked one of these up.
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry
Credit Card Max
Winter’s icy handsSlap rosy cheeksFlushed in angerFuming over no oilTent citiesPopsiclesHopelessness breeds fearGreed...
3 days ago Charles George Taylor | Topics: short stories
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry
Poetry Contest Today — $20
Weekend Poetry Contest– Win $20Poems must be less than 2400 characters and fit on one page at the craigslist writer’s...
3 days ago Charles George Taylor | Topics: short stories
 
Hoyeya
Hoyeya posted a blog entry
The Rejected Scribe Finds New Ideas
Ah, the stale smell of rejection. Its refreshing scent is accompanied by a surge of self-doubt. The Chaffin Journal rejected...
 
<em>davidbdale</em>
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Enough Asparagus
I feel as if I’d met you yesterday though it’s been thirty years and at my age that means I die tomorrow or at best the day...
 
Susan K
Susan K posted a blog entry
Sightseeing
I heard Lapchareonsap, the author of the short story collection, Sightseeing.He intrigued me as he spoke of growing up in...
4 days ago Xingu | Topics: Asia, short stories, Thailand, fiction
 
Neilbe
Neilbe posted a blog entry
Friday Flash Fiction: Avan
Friday Flash entry for w/e 3rd October.
 
Hoyeya
Hoyeya posted a blog entry
Just Write Blog Carnival October 3, 2008 Edition
Welcome to the October 3, 2008 edition of Just Write. There are close to 30 links for you to visit this week - a new record!...
 
Quelyn
Quelyn posted a blog entry
Addictive Personality - Written April 2003
“Yeah fuck you too buddy,” Morgan says to the waiter that keeps forgetting to bring her the mayo on the side. Every day...
5 days ago Emo Crap | Topics: Short Stories
 
(S)wine
(S)wine posted a blog entry
Round Trip to Elyria For a Funeral and Wake
My time lines are obfuscated now and people no longer trust me. I have muddied everything into an uneven ball of clay, which I...
 
Shelly Bryant
Shelly Bryant posted a blog entry
Bound By Contempt
This is really good flash fiction.Dan Radke's Bound By Contempt first appeared at Sloth Jockey last month, and it is an...
 
animos
animos posted a blog entry
3:43 at 5th And Cherry Street
Gemi Ranney catches her bus at 3:43 on the Corner of 5thand Cherry Street Mondaythrough Friday.You could set your watch by...
 
Jill Terry
Jill Terry posted a blog entry
Childhood playground
There was a large church that sat on the corner across the street from her house. She used to go there when things got too...
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry

      
6 days ago Charles George Taylor | Topics: short stories
 
AOLionheart
AOLionheart posted a blog entry
The Sugar Bowl
Mrs. Ligaya came to visit her son Lester for dinner who lives with a female roommate named Erika.During the meal, his mother...
 
Chris Cade
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"The shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story." - Author Unknown - http://www.Spiritual-Short-Stories.com
 
Jill Terry
Jill Terry posted a blog entry
Epitaph
She spent endless hours among the dead, tiptoeing around their graves. The moment she passed through the tall iron gates;...
 
VampireFaust
VampireFaust posted a blog entry
Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror 2008 Anthologies
One of the various projects I have been involved in this year has been the Ladies & Gentlemen of Horror 2008 anthologies....
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry
Bucky the Goat
Bucky was our pet goat. We kept the brown and white, slit-eyed, non-horned bovine chained like a dog to a large wooden box in...
7 days ago Charles George Taylor | Topics: short stories
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Short Story September Bonus: Time, Again by Tim Maly
Another short story read for Short Story September Challenge. This is the 31st one. A bonus read!"Before we met, you showed me...
 
buzzgrinder28
buzzgrinder28 posted a blog entry
New Releases: Ben Folds, Dear and the Headlights, Bleeding Through
There was a whole crapload of Christmas releases that I took the liberty of deleting. If you really care about those, you can...
 
(S)wine
(S)wine posted a blog entry
El Draque
–Ten out of ten clowns were tormentors. For example, Kafka’s father Hermann made him believe he turned into an...
7 days ago (S)wine | Topics: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Cuba, highball
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Short Story September #30: Eliyahu ha-Navi by Mark Sparber
Another short story read for Short Story September Challenge being run by CB James.I read Eliyahu ha-Navi by Mark Sparber in...
 
praveen100
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Time is a mystery
Life is a mystery everyone says, but if you ask me Time is a bigger mystery. When you want it to go slow, it just zooms like a...
8 days ago The Praveen | Topics: Short Stories
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Short Story September #29: Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow
I read Leaving the Yellow House (1957) by Saul Bellow online in Narrative Magazine.This is about Hattie Waggoner who is seventy...
 
animos
animos posted a blog entry
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
This is the very story that made me decide to become a Writer.I was about 10 when I heard it for the first time.It was years...
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry
Kissing Cousins
Snow was in the process of changing over to rain. Pellets of sleet mixed with snowflakes larger than quarters as the pearly...
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Short Story September #28: Weddings and Beheadings by Hanif Kureishi
Weddings and Beheadings by Hanif Kureishi is an interesting title. I found it online in a back issue of Zoetrope:...
 
animos
animos posted a blog entry
The Elevator Ghost
A few days ago someone sent this to me-it’s one of those Urban Legend stories about a ghostthat shows up on a security...
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Sunday Salon: Short stories and more short stories
Last sunday, I mentioned I found many sites where one can read short stories online. I had fun exploring and I am still looking...
 
praveen100
praveen100 posted a blog entry
The Elusive Search
It all happened very suddenly, I was busy trying to figure out what was going on and probably the frustration of not trying to...
10 days ago The Praveen | Topics: Short Stories
 
charlesgeorgetaylor
charlesgeorgetaylor posted a blog entry
$700 Billion Whores of Babylon
Suddenly my psychosis seems warranted and the world less crazy. Perhaps what happened to my mind seven years ago was not simply...
10 days ago Charles George Taylor | Topics: short stories
 
imagery
imagery posted a blog entry
Short Story September #26 and #27: Hair by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie/The ruin of Grant Lowery by Audrey Niffenegger
Hair by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The ruin of Grant Lowery by Audrey Niffenegger are fairy tales published in Guardian. ...
 
DrewGum
DrewGum posted a blog entry
Podcast 1
No proper blog this week as I’m off to Barcelona. But here in the meantime here is a podcast I prepared earlier. It’s...
10 days ago DrewBlog | Topics: books, literature, short stories, writing
 
Mister EDgAr h
Mister EDgAr h posted a blog entry
He parked..
in the underground parking lot listening to Queen. He got out of his Mercedes C230 Kompressor with his iPod on, Revolution...
 
<em>nzire</em>
nzire posted a blog entry
A lush few moments with Colette: The Silver Stopper
Thank you so much for your wonderful post about my story, The Silver Stopper, Teresa!I adore the word “lush”:...
 
Riana
Riana posted a blog entry
Langit Berwarna Putih Patah
Sudah dua hari ini Jakarta diguyur hujan. Terutama Jakarta Selatan, tepatnya Pejaten dan Serpong. Seperti sore ini. Gak terlalu...
11 days ago A Day In A Life | Topics: Short Stories