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Loveland

Jade and I drove into Loveland which was between Denver and Fort Collins. Everything was love themed. The bowling alley was Lover’s Lane. The coffee shop was Th...
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Bullshit Ghosts

Key open the front door. The old door used to stick, need a good shoulder. This one’s deadbolt slides open with the sound of television fuzz. This one swings op...
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Lady Neighbor

He undresses slowly in front of the window, as instructed. She’s in a second-floor bedroom in the house next to his, watching through binoculars. No nudity, ...
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Billboard

We are high as fuck on Mike’s deck the moment the powers that be turned on the new billboard. It’s nighttime and it hurts our eyes at first. It’s so bright, lik...
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Toll Babies

I was stopped short at a tollbooth at an indiscriminate distance between where I was fleeing and where I was going. The man in the stall slid the glass open sid...
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SSBBW

She searches for BBW, SSBBW, FAT GANGBANG. She likes to watch the ones with women who are so big it’s hard to imagine how they’re still alive; asses large enoug...
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Sticky Socks

CW: suicide, eating disorders, self-harm     In college, Henry would say, “I’m going to make a self-portrait,” before going into a stall, dropp...
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Sip

You are the only one left in your family. Take a sip of water, you’ll be fine. It was quite the set of circumstances. Remarkable, really. I’ve never seen ...
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Spyder

It is true that if you look down a lot of shitty streets in Denver you can see dusted peaks and it does resemble the Coors logo. To escape downtown, I’d walk ou...
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SPACE CAPSULE

I never had plans to be an astronaut, but somehow I ended up in outer space.  For several decades I had to come to terms with the fact that there was something ...
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Dr. Snoop Marley

It was 7 p.m. on a Saturday and Cinderella 99 Hospital was in a panic. The surgeon was late for surgery. To top it off, it was senior prom night, so I, the ER f...
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Group

Old Fashioneds in WI are different because WI is different, not the same, a weird kind of a place, full of friendly faces, welcoming, charged with the kind of t...
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Brain Worms

The good news: The wife won big. The bad news: I have brain worms.   Worse still, the medication I’m on makes me furious and paranoid. Not to mention...
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Ice Cream Knuckles

“I’m begging you to give me permission to fire him.” Gabe’s plea was more pathetic than intended, his meek tone reverberating within his doughy jaw. “Plea...
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The Deep End

The first time Aly said she couldn’t be killed, I thought nothing of it. She was filing her nails on the edge of the bed. I was sleeping over. Her hair smell...
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GROTESQUE

I MISSED THE CONNECTION TO SOME NOWHERE CITY ON MY ROUTE AND WOUND UP STRANDED IN ONE EVEN LESS APPEALING. Christmas season brought booked flights and little sy...
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Sound Chasers

There are sounds that come from trees that he cannot explain or identify. He understands the sounds are emanating from bugs or birds, but with no visible origin...
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Night Drive

The screaming stopped the instant Sam opened her eyes. She’d been having nightmares about mass shootings again. They’d mostly gone away during the pandemic. Now...
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