In a world of flux and motion, he finally felt that his life of a hundred missteps was reaching an even keel.
In high school, he was a gifted athlete with a talent for sprinting. He felt a sense of
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Short Fiction
In a world of flux and motion, he finally felt that his life of a hundred missteps was reaching an even keel.
In high school, he was a gifted athlete with a talent for sprinting. He felt a sense of
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I was running late for my date with Kat. No good reason for it, either. I just stood in the shower way too long thinking about how much I was dreading and looking forward to finally meeting ... [+]
A single cell refuses to die.
Inside the man's right lung, the cell mutates, proliferates, bent on its single-minded directive to reproduce. It takes a long time for cells to amass and clump
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After she drove into a retaining wall behind the consignment store, I took the Saturn away. "I'll call the police!" my 91-year-old mother screamed, eyes slitted in loathing.
"You could have killed
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Kyle jogged down the dock behind the Coast Guard station. Gage was already on the boat, his arms crossed, the motor running.
"What's the holdup?" Gage asked when Kyle reached him. "Phone
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After rushing to catch her train, all Laura wanted was to close her eyes and zone out. She was late for work and people were crammed onto BART, but she managed to find a spot near the door where she ... [+]
The sword bounced against Petra's hip as she entered the BART train. The passengers didn't give her much thought, too used to the sight of Knights these days to care. Petra was relieved; she didn't ... [+]
Dad and I live in the final car of the train. He needs to oversee the train's route at all times or else we'll get lost in the space-time continuum. We use the shower onboard and sleep in the rows of ... [+]
Save your jibes about chronology. Our story starts here.
In 1820, a small book publisher in London named Richard Alyott received a letter from Monticello, in the American town of Charlottesville
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There's a house under construction on the empty lot across from the porch Frank sits on every day. In fact, it's been under construction for so long that the yellowed grasses and the towering fennel ... [+]
1. All living things move
72 percent of adults never leave their hometown. Some don't recognize it as a choice. Some don't have the means. Some stay to take care of family.
I, on the other hand
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My mother told me I should never date a guy who didn't have his own car. She said that it set some bad precedent, mixed up the lines between provider and provided-for. There's nothing more ladylike ... [+]
The train ride was her daily hour of freedom, but today's was different.
This morning, like any other, she had stuffed her lunch into her bag and scrambled to the station, dodging bicyclists and
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The rattle of bottles and cans betrayed the sun's quiet ascent that Wednesday morning. Above, in apartment 3D, Patricia rose from her bed. She was careful not to disturb her grandson, Carlitos, who ... [+]