“Do you know why the water tower for King William County is shaped like a turkey baster?” I asked. I nodded towards the bulbous-topped tower…
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“Why You Temper She, O World?” by Jeremiah Edward Hobbs
A milky opalescent luster set over the dying day as Lucija, a Neanderthal, watched from the brush this Early Homo sapien. He, the Sapien, was…
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From an early age, I have been taught that affection hurts. My parents used to beat me every Thursday evening after my father got home…
View More “All the Devils are Here” by M.L. Kerrick“The Twisted Manuscript” by Brendan Blowers
Dr. Wexler had the nightmare again. It always began the same way, with Wexler dreaming he was in his tiny shared office at Viceroy College.…
View More “The Twisted Manuscript” by Brendan Blowers“Eve’s Diary” by Mark Twain (1906)
SATURDAY.–I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if…
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Eric Jackson sat at his desk typing away at the reports he had to get finished by five o’clock. Out of the corner of his…
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I’m the youngest of the cousins. There are five of us. I have two sisters, twins, who are twelve years older than me, and we…
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