Fiction
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‘Can’t wait to see you and dad. Love you too! Bye-bye!’, Mia gently replaces the phone in its cradle, closes her eyes and takes a few deep breaths. It does not help, her mind is racing, outpacing her heartbeat. ‘Shit! Shit, shit, shit!’, she opens her eyes and sees her reflection in the hallway mirror,…
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The rain shower surprised everyone. It was the last few minutes of the fourth quarter in the annual football game between the cities of Gordonville and Richfield, and the score was tied. For the last few years Richfield has won every match, and tonight Gordonville is inside the twenty-five-yard line of their arch enemy, with…
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Cody had enough. He pats his back pocket to make sure the note is still there, then slips the noose he made out of an extension cord over his head. He sighs loudly, pulls the noose tight and relaxes his knees, hanging with his feet still touching the garage floor. Soon he loses consciousness and…
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Ray loves food, especially fast food. Not Mickey D’s or Wendy’s or any of those restaurants, but real fast food that comes from a truck. He tells this joke to everyone, sometimes more than once in the same conversation. Ray is one of god’s children, another of his sayings learned from gramma Orb. When Ray…
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Oliver Twist Thompson, known as Olly to all, owns and operates a veterinarian clinic in Winnemucca Nevada. This city of almost eight thousand is intersected by interstate 80, and his clinic gets a lot of walk-in customers from travelers on their way to Tahoe or Vegas. The giant sign that advertises his location was a…
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Bubba Less, christened Bertrand Ferdinand Morrison Less, 46 years ago on good old planet Earth is not a happy colonist. His spacesuit smells like old farts and sweat, and the moment the airlock door opened his nose started itching. There is no way in hell that you can scratch your nose when wearing a space…
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Ben was about to start the second season of Dexter when the dinosaur walked past his house. It had a huge teeth-filled head and looked like a T-Rex. It had to be a T-Rex. Ben was in his home office on the second floor of his house when he saw the giant head bob past…
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The angel is in a foul mood. It yanked its suit off and struggled to fold it before tossing it back into the ship. The suit’s wings tend to become rigid and springy when the suit is not worn. The angel was in the middle of a well-deserved vacation when this job got assigned. It…
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The dust cloud passed through our solar system at a leisurely pace. Nothing in space happens fast. It was immense and covered the space between Mars and Venus. On its path through the solar system, it swallowed the earth and its moon, and blanketed our world for 4 weeks. We experience seasons on earth because…
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Jim found Jesus in the kitchen. Jesus was struggling to push open the refrigerator door, his six-inch stature not able to make the magnetic seal release. The door would move a quarter inch or so, as much as the rubber seal allowed, but the magnetic force was too much for Jesus to overcome. ‘What are…
Tales from my head 