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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

A little fiction for Wednesday (hump day)...

TWO BLOKES WALKED INTO A BAR…. Little Donnie ordered Smirnoff on the rocks and a side of fries. Boris got a pint of Stout and some salted peanuts. There was some back-slapping and atta-boys, and then the two began sharing about how their week had gone. Donnie had been treated with scorn by his own... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Dystopian Fiction

Soylent Green If you’re not old enough to remember the dystopian movie “Soylent Green” when it was first released in 1973, then it’s entirely possible you’ve seen it featured on TV in years since. Charlton Heston played a police detective, a good friend to an older gentleman struggling to make ends... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 2, 2019

IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

This story opening is about as cliché as it gets. It sets the mood for a campfire tale full of frightening shadows, rattling windows, a dark, slinking figure that approaches with evil intent. Perhaps this one’s name is Dorian, the most unwelcome of visitors, one who lingers long after he’s worn out... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 1, 2019

Antique china teacups and petit four saucers

Sometimes when I wake up I remember the dream. Lately I’ve dreamed of laughing children with stories to share and elaborate situations involving the work place, being in crowded hallways on campus, etc. – all familiar in dreams but not in actuality. Last night it was a setting like The Center, but... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 31, 2019

TO THE BROADCAST PRODUCER

NO POLITICS, PLEASE. Sorry, ma’am, it’s all politics, all the time. BUT I’M SO SICK OF THE SPITEFUL PETTINESS… Time for you to adjust to the new reality. Drama for the camera’s where it’s at. YOU’RE SELLING ANTI-ANXIETY DRUGS. IS THAT WHY YOUR STUFF IS SO STRESSFUL? No comment. Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 30, 2019

THURSDAY AT THE CENTER

Our Write Your Own Story group topic was “best school friend” either from elementary or high school. The fiction lead-in was an invitation to tell a Halloween-type story: Your car has broken down on a country road. You and your companion see a house set back from the road. There’s a light inside.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

BITS AND BLURBS

FOLLOW UP – LTR TO THE EDITOR A week or so ago I wrote here about one of the guys at The Center who’d asked me to send a letter to the editor for him using a fake name in order to circumvent his wife/censor who doesn’t want him rattling cages in print. I told him he’d have to use his own name. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

CARS, NEIGHBORS'

Redd Truck, Pearly Gray, Vanna White and The Jeepster are names I’ve given to vehicles in the lot next to the apartment complex across the alley. Redd is frequently gone for a few days at a time. I’m surmising he’s an over-the-road trucker. He’s got that pot-belly build and walks like he may not be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

RANDOM MONDAY STUFF

The bad, the good and the not so ugly: I knew three of the seven people listed in Saturday’s Obits from the Daily Blah. Audrey A. had been my neighbor for 20-odd years, her kids and my kids had grown up together… Good woman. Harvey B. used to work in the same small dept. with me at SIUe, back in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 26, 2019

CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE CREEPY KIND

As I was coming back into the house after taking the day’s trash bag out to my little dumpster tub, I reached for the doorknob. As fingers closed loosely around the knob I felt something fuzzy, and it moved! I let go. I looked. There was a fuzzy brown spider, pulling in its legs and apparently... Sign in to see full entry.

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