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The Cleaner
David stared at the long black stain. He had tried everything he could to clean it from the otherwise pristine white shirt, but nothing had…
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The Animals Among Us
I. Aves When the little boy double crossed the shetani¸ Great Heron assumed her true spirit form and cursed him, placing her hands upon the…
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The Ambassador
My father was my hero. When he was ten, he went into the cigar factory. He sat on a long bench. His father sat on…
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On the Morning He Was To Leave Mortalus
On the morning he was to leave Mortalus for the drive south to California, while walking to the library to return three DVD’s starring Theresa…
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Clean Break
Alessa wakes to the sound of bickering and with no idea where she is. There’s a television on somewhere and the bickering is just two…
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Second Language
Sapna sips her café au lait on the patio of the Alliance Française de Bangalore. The styrofoam cup squeaks between her fingers, the beverage is…
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Before the War
She leaned back against a bit of plywood spraypainted with hieroglyphics that had once signified a neighborhood swept and cleared. Her piousness was a beacon,…
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Property
“I hate you!’ Maya cried and dashed to the bedroom, kicking the door behind her. The heavy door, solid seasoned-teak, swayed but stopped short of…
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A Curious Thing Happened
If she had known what lay in store for her that day, she might have worn better shoes. She had squeezed her feet into narrow…
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The Nighttime Crossing
There was finally a moonless night when Andrew drove his car to Sandy Point and boarded the last ferry of the day to the Eastern…
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The Visit
Garland Breazeale was the last lawyer remaining in the courthouse’s library. Of course, “library” was a generous description for the cramped space in the building’s…
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The Old Suitcase
“Here take this”, Radha plonked a big old VIP suitcase in front of me, “one of the locks is broken, but I don’t think that…
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Fly Girl
I haven’t thought about her in two days. Guilt guiding my feet, I climb the rickety wooden ladder to the attic, wipe the dust off…
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Theodore
Theodore Gabriel Watson awoke early on the day he was to unintentionally kill a fifteen-year-old white girl, feeling like a diseased mouse had crawled inside…
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A Cold Winter’s Night
She laid there, in quiet repose, as though I might wake her from her slumber. All the energies in the world could perform no such…
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The Spider Story
I A mature, female spider needs to know how to make proper webs. But spider A was still struggling. First, she was reluctant to make…
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Move Forward
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the opening night of Operap, the musical experiment. I am Coby Sunders, the producer of the show. I am also…
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The Myth and the Miserable
I was in love with a mythical creature for the longest time. I didn’t meet her by the sea; she wasn’t washed ashore by a…
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All the Love in the World
The year after she left, my mother visited our house in San Diego only twice. The first time, she came with a U-haul truck and…
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Unforgotten
It was the day before Christmas in Calcutta. It was 1997, and the city, like its name, still retained much of its old world charm….
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Paramour
How sometimes, we are tied down by the Normal; we don’t want to realize all of our dreams. Here she was, compromising all her dreams…
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Khublei Shibun
It was a late September evening when the sun came out after a 2 hour long shower. Cold water running through the streets drench my…
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Pale-hued Existentialism
Another loveless year is past. I am growing old now. Twenty six, at some impressionable age long ago seemed way too old for anymore fun…
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After She Was Gone
The phone rang. Papa was in his usual place in front of the telly, watching Call My Bluff, and muttering why Mummy wasn’t home yet….