Classic and Contemporary Stories
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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It came one evening when everyone else was sleeping. It crawled in the dark outside, hissing along the night winds that were shaking leaves and branches of the big mango tree standing tall a few footsteps from our house.
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PTSD, flashbacks, whatever – it ain’t what you think. I don’t see the boys I shot head’s dripping off sideways like JFK. I don’t see Mitch “Sorcerer” Rodriguez telling me about the Tao Te Ching then pulling his final act of wizardry
Continue readingDead?” she asked the officer standing at the door. Martha wore a shocked look.
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October 22, 2015 by Rayma Elaine It was a chilly Thursday, sometime last November. I had very late night at
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You know those horror stories that start out with a line something like ‘it was a dark and stormy night’? This isn’t one of those.
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Continue readingBlood. Sticky, shiny, wet. Brazen red. I blink and the desperation rises in my chest. I cannot clear the bold scarlet puddle from my eyes, it proceeds like a relentless festering floodwater.
Continue readingJennifer by Raymond Cothern She comes limping across the yard, the alternating and uneven areas of grass and gravel, favoring
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