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The Epic Splendour Of My Blender

“If you come any closer, I’ll jump!” Oh for fuck’s sake, I thought as I made a move for the balcony. True to its word, my blender jumped off the balcony railing, smashing into a million bits on...

10 comments    computer depression kitchen
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Roach Motel

Simon first noticed the cockroach when he went to the kitchen to get another cup of coffee. He moved slowly, circling the bug, trying not to alarm it. He’d seen a few other cockroaches in his apartment and,...

5 comments    friendship fantasy short story
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Friends For Life

I know how it all happened, I keep track of things like this. I like to know what happens around me. Shit happens, my friend, and it happened to you. You made your own shit and then you had to sleep in it....

0 comments    advice friends work
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You Will Be Compensated

“My God, you weren’t that foolish, were you?!?!”“Well, what the hell else am I supposed to do, sit around on my ass and wait for them to take our house away? My house!!!” Karl was angry as hell...

0 comments    money marriage mortgage
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A Small Partitioned Space

“Why don’t you just transfer me to someone else, that’s all you’re good for.” “I’m doing my best ma’am, you have a very extensive billing history, this will just take a moment longer.”...

0 comments    television job career
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Overcoming a Fear of Heights

He had always been afraid of heights his whole life; never going near the edge of anything higher than about three feet off the ground, never going up a ladder. Of course, there was that one time when his...

2 comments    life parents fear
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The Final Word

He hadn’t visited his parents’ graves since his mother had passed away fifteen years ago, his father had died eighteen years ago, both on July 15. Strange. But then, he thought, they were a strange...

6 comments    life family humor
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Sunbeam

Sunbeam, that was it! A bluish-green Sunbeam! The question came to him from a dream he had had three nights ago, he couldn’t remember much of the dream, just that in the dream he was a kid again and that...

4 comments    life work golf
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Mormons I Have Known

So anyway, all I really wanted to do was sit out on my balcony and smoke cigars and get drunk on Jack Daniels. You’d think it would a simple enough thing, especially on a warm summer day with just a few...

0 comments    life job career
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The Moral of Oral

I have God’s ear, he cried, Send me your money, the Jekyll and Hyde. I am a Christian, I worked for the poor, Yet somehow I always seemed to need more. I had a TV show, I preached all aglow, ...

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