Category: Fiction
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The Broadcast Violence Was Thusly Amplified
He was watching the news. Something bad was happening in Syria. She was in the other room getting undressed. She thought about what she had just read on her phone. Something bad was happening in Syria. She used the master control to turn off the lights. The apartment fell dark and this had the effect […]
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An Undergraduate Refilled Their Glasses
Neither of them moved or spoke. An undergraduate refilled their glasses. The horn of an unseen car honked succinctly, providing an auditory punctuation that neither of them could muster.
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Short Story: Modifications Politely Declined
My latest short story Modifications Politely Declined has been featured on The Regal Fox. Click here to give it a read. He wouldn’t have noticed her if she hadn’t been smoking a cigarette. That she was doing so while seated directly under a sign that read ‘Thank You For Not Smoking’ made him feel strangely […]
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Heartbreak Dulled His Senses
She was sitting on the upper level of the train. He couldn’t see her face from where he was standing but he could see that her hair was auburn colored. It was enough. He was in love. It was easy and pleasurable to imagine meeting her in the city after work. He would take her […]
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He Abandoned His Attempts To Blend In
He realised quickly that his dark blue jeans and button-down white cotton shirt made it difficult to be apatetic in this club, yet he ceased to be noticed at the very moment he abandoned his attempts to blend in.