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31 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
He was sleeping with this lady at the hospital, a nurse. I’m a doctor at the same hospital, so Betty told me everything. Betty is one of the cleaners at the hospital. He came to pick me up one evening from work. That was the first time he saw her, th...
19 Feb 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Xeroxmac
The eyes did not blink. Do fish even sleep? thought Kyle, as he tapped on the glass of the small aquarium that he'd bought on sale at LowMart. He remembered how right past all the gardening gear, with its platoon of plastic rakes and bags of standing...
28 Nov 2020 5 minute read 4 comments (S)llew la Wulf
And as I sit here. Wearing the red lipstick, that you willingly smeared across your face, as you kissed me deep and full, amongst the cotton blooms floating dustily, cinematically about ourweus in that shitty carpark in June. I’m reminded of the pig...
29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Until recently he'd never taken the time to watch it snow. There was always something to be done. There were always fires to be put out. Then the EMP happened. Now there was time for whatever he wanted to do. There was nothing but time. Power ha...
19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I can see the young girls sharpening their knives. This was a skill that they had acquired in the last few days. It would be hard for them to survive in the wilderness without a sharp knife. Some were working on the filet knives they would use t...
18 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
"I figure that belongs to old man Sams. You know anybody else that uses a McCulloch chainsaw?" The deputy shook his head and said, "Nobody I can think of right off hand." Sams was a crotchety old bastard that lived way back in the holler. He ran...
18 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
"Whatever it was, it run off behind the bush over yonder." People in these parts were not very particular with their grammar. They didn't much take to "schoolin'." "Like I done told that newspaper feller that was snoopin' 'round here before, I a...
10 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
He said I didn't have to tell anyone, and I was planning to hold him to that. Somehow, however, it seemed like more and more people wanted to know what had actually happened. I'm still not very comfortable talking about it. There was the whole thing...
17 Jun 2020 5 minute read 1 comment orneryowl
As the citizens of West Holpry, the capitol of the totalitarian realm of West Zecor watched, King Qweh paraded a new victim through the streets towards the city’s notorious Ktenology Center, a building from which no prisoner emerged alive. Qweh was a...
24 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments orneryowl
Yadira spins her magic Free use image from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/spinner-irish-spinner-woman-craft-559751/ As Pegman strode through the forest near Galway, he chanced on an archetypal scene. An old woman sat spinning near a cottage over...
