short story
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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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Sandra loves working the graveyard shift. In her 67 years she has worked all the shifts on all the days, and the 10pm to 7am shift is her absolute favorite. It starts late enough for most kids to already be in bed and ends early enough for most day dwellers to still be at home,…
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This was Joe’s last job. With this last job done, he is ready to retire. This job involved a crooked judge. This woman took bribes, and her judgment was always for sale. Joe shot her in the back of the head while she was applying lipstick using her car’s rearview mirror. She was on her…
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The old man’s stuff was moved into the building in early September, on a sunny Saturday morning. The old man himself showed up on foot in the afternoon. His building is one of six high rises, built in the seventies as part of a public development that provides subsidized housing for low-income families. Most people…
Tales from my head 