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I have 59 stories published in
one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 140189 times
and 51 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Barry Rachin
My stories
The Divined Comedy
Ava Frick reads Kierkegaard and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines __ __ and one solid ____. Not a good omen!
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Emergence
Nadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, just discovered that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at the cheesy dating bars.
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A Chinese Bar Mitzvah
Mr. Chen’s shiatsu has a level-three heart murmur. The widower lives on a fixed income. Ada Goldfarb’s son, Robert, is a veterinarian. Maybe they can work things out.
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No Bear, No Forest
Everything fourteen year old Lester McSweeney knows about life he learned from reading Louis L'Amour cowboy stories.
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Call of the Beguiled
Cheryl doesn’t do well in social situations. The fourteen year old's best friend is Nicolena, a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. What else could go wrong?
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