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THE SOLDIER WHO LOVED DOGS

The Soldier Who Loved Dogs

March 8, 2023 By Every Writer Filed Under: Animal Stories, Family Story

“I am not a warring man.” Igor watched the old man lead a German Shepherd through the rubble which Berlin had become.

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Encounter With a Talking Head by VM Landi

Encounter With a Talking Head by VM Landi Every year during the summer my son and his wife, their two kids, and I would make the trip to the Jersey shore for a week. The oldest girl, Barbara, was around 3 the first year we took them, and her sister, Lena, was close to 2. […]

Swallowed by Angela Carlton

Swallowed by Angela Carlton

I’ve been caught up in your lies. I’m not the spider but the bug who waits to get swallowed in your web, those delicate strands. Yes, I’m wrapped inside where everything tends to hang.

Switching Gears By LB Sedlacek

Switching Gears by LB Sedlacek

Kim stared at her computer. She was looking at rough draft number she didn’t know what. She’d lost count, there had been so many changes. Her characters were no longer her characters. Her publisher wanted them all to be despicable.

Them By Meg Pokrass

You would hate it if you knew how many times I apply lipstick now that you’re gone. I’m putting it on, like, every five minutes to get through the next fifteen, though I know they use fish scales to make it

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Telekinesis for Beginners

Telekinesis for Beginners by Michelle Lee

At the ripe age of 21, Ariel lives in failure of that first step. She’s filing papers now, an administrative assistant at the Dropbox headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. She watches the computer engineers check in and out behind the front desk on the third floor, and all day this plagues her with a sense of inadequacy. She thinks about her upbringing in an upper-middle class

The Magic Spot        

The Magic Spot: A story inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Melancholy of a Beautiful Day” He lay in the grassy median of a road which bounded one side of a large inner-city university.  How he had come there, nobody knew.  From his looks, though, his path had been a cruel one. His body showed the signs of a life wracked by insupportable pain.  His face was hollow and sallow, 

The Fortune Teller by Meghan Campbell

The Fortune Teller by Meghan Campbell

he fortune teller pushed the cloth curtains out of her way and stepped into the room, adjusting the oversized turban on her head.

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Ant Death by Lorna Wood

Useful. Keeping busy. Reading the trails, bringing home food.

Warm day, scurrying along, pavement warm, sun bright, right overhead.

“Hey guys, watch this.”

“God, he looks so big through that thing.”

The Feral Nature of Werewolves, A History

Werewolves never existed. Humans created them from lore used to explain their loss of livestock at night. Humans rejected the notation that mere feral wolves could so quietly and so effectively take down and devour whole cattle in the dead of night without being detected

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My darkest fear! by Wendy Montoya

I sat up gasping for air; my throat felt tight again. I glanced at the clock; although I already knew It was 3:30 am. The same time I have been waking up for the past week!

A Moonlight Fable by H. G. Wells

A Moonlight Fable by H. G. Wells There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold and woven so that I cannot describe how delicate and fine it was, and there was a tie of orange fluffiness that tied up under his chin. And […]

the birds weep a story by steve carr

The Birds Weep by Steve Carr

The air is thick with the scent of pine. Rays of purple, blood red and golden yellow are fanned out across the twilight sky. Kyle walks among the trees holding a bouquet of wilting lilies. Lost, he searches for signs of the path he wandered away from.

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