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Heel - § 5: The First Day

They drove out to Hollis Ward's on a Saturday in October with the windows down and Denny up on his knees in the back seat the whole way, too wound up...
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Heel - § 4: The Noticing

The church supper was over and the men had gone out to the lot to stand around the cars, and the kitchen behind them was close with steam and loud...
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Heel - § 3: The Act

Arlene's kitchen was yellow and had been yellow as long as Lorraine had been coming to it, a soft butter color on the walls and a deeper one in the...
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The Emperor's New Clothes! ( Ship Of Fools ) by Alfred N.Muggins
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24/5/26 Alfred wished sometimes that he (they! - all of us?) could turn back the clock. To go back to before the insipid/unrelenting/undeniable force...
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He Came to Me
The skies opened up. Golden light poured from the clouds and the blue alike, bathing the world below in a celestial glow. A humanoid being descended...
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Heel - § 2: The Removal

The dog was at the screen door before she was up, faced out at the street, and the rag rug under him was cold where it should have been warm with the...
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Heel - § 1: The After

Lorraine had the wash on the line by nine, and the dog came out with her and went back in with her, the screen door clapping twice in the still...
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Period Piece - § 4

They walked home the way they walked home, her hand in his. He carried the day behind a level face, the missing hour and the folder with the date in...
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The Fall and Rise

Pride cometh before the fall or so the proverb claims; my feet have never felt the ground. The ground, it shifts, an unnatural occurrence; torn from...
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Both Eyes Open

The rule lived at the end of the hall. Not the stove, and not the dog that bit the Harmon boy. The glass. You do not look in the glass. He said all...
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