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Frankenplot: Orginal Sin.
He’d agreed to meet John Doe here. But he hadn’t showed. Not as far as he could tell and he was rarely wron. He crinkled his nose and noticed the...
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The Faithful
The host resumed her script. “Before you leave, please reveal if you are a Faithful... or a Traitor.”
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Julie's House
Title stolen from a wonderful Leo Kottke song. Otherwise no relation, I think. You can listen to the song here
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The Green By-Election
He’d been knocking on doors for three hours. Rain fell, on and off. A cold wind chilled the back of his neck. His leaflets became damp and started curling at the edges.
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The Doll's House Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. Cruxton. The gates were chained shut, the houses boarded, the wells capped with stone. Ivy grew unchecked, curling over signs no one...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 8. August
Chapter Eight. Mice. At the bottom of our backyard was a brick air raid shelter. It was now used as a coal shed. We were not supposed to play in...
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Looking Backwards
First, my thanks to Edward Bellamy, for borrowing the title of his interesting book, written long ago. The concept of “looking backward” has always...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (3)
He came up and built the pyramid slowly, so everybody could watch, the three silent ones first. He wiped his palms down the front of his apron and...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (2)
There had been a boy standing at the top of the spur, by the funnel cake stand, while the girl won. Kurt had seen him without looking at him. The boy...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (1)
Kurt had come for the weigh-off, and the weigh-off ran late. They held it in the agriculture barn at the low end of the fairgrounds, under a row of...
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