There was the acid reflux and allergic reaction to casein. A cartilage-deficient left knee and pinched muscles in the small of her back. Karen Rainey was a wreck. But a sacrifice had to be made. Bills don't much care if one's body has t...
Connie was late. Preoccupied, as usual. She had become agitated and forgetful ever since noticing there were more and more starlings getting in her way. They watched her through the kitchen window as she drank her coffee. Starlings mar...
Lynn looked high and low for her identity. She remembered having it when she talked to the nice man at the bank. Lynn stayed up late the night before polishing the persona she knew would snag her a loan. The money would set her up with...
Cold nights lend themselves to long, involved dreams which leave one worn out in the morning. Perhaps the sluggishness is due to tugging at the comforter, and kicking loose the well-tucked sheet, and tossing when a turn was intended. An...
I like the idea of many, many fingers flying over keyboards, typing 4,000 word daily reminders of why the practice matters. There is reassurance to be had when the neighbor says, "I stay up all night because of this damned story in my h...
Gary's lineman-sized body, which he didn't do a whole hell of a lot to keep in shape, would not fit through the window for very long. His goal was folding in on itself, and the moment Gary'd carved out of leftover dreams, and good old-f...
Annabelle and Charlotte let drop many vital threads which led to their true identity. For all outward appearances, they were identical. For those who kept watch over disturbances in quiet country villages, they personified the end of ti...
Charles did the best he could to wipe away the smeared edges of memories that would not dovetail. There were gaps and odd thoughts and dangling threads in the history Charles put down on paper every night, but he had to finish his story...
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