Category: Short Stories

It’s been a while since I’ve written a short story. I’ve been mulling over a few ideas here and there. Starting and stopping a few times on this one and other ones half finished because I was half interested in them.  I finally sat down and just wrote, not putting too much pressure to figure

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Writer’s Note: I started writing this last year.  Yes, last year in 2017.  I finally decided to go back and finish it.  I thought about the polar opposites when writing this and how relationships work and don’t work. It was supposed to be a much longer short story, but these are more writing exercises than

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I placed twenty-dollar bills into his hand, making sure he saw each one.  BB looked at me, showing a little bit of sorrow on his face.  He knew who they truly belonged to.  He also missed her as much as I did.  I should’ve invited him to the river when I sprinkled the last of

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As the sun began its vanishing act, the moon became a sliver with its true radiance obscured behind a cloud. It was on this night I managed to catch a glimpse of his being before he retreated into the darkness. His posture was menacing as the black opal dangling from a chain around his neck.

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