johnshade
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I have 132 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 143711 times
and 103 of my stories have been cherry picked.
My stories
On the plane from Toronto to Vancouver
Mesmerised by modulating maps (damn Nabokov, your mischievous dust lay safely inert in the print of the tenth-hand copy of Transparent Things I picked up at a yard sale in Toronto, until I opened it a
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- 801 reads
Marybel
Marybel was twenty five. She loved freedom, storms.
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- 1399 reads
Sparks
The crackle of words sparking blue pulse in dim pub spark down point of plastic pen down tube of ink that crackle smoke flare spark blue ignite fingernails scorch skin those sparks — scrawled blue m
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- 1065 reads
Flow Is Everything
This sentence is a bullet aimed at your head. This one's a river full of mud. A wire touching the case. This sentence is the sequence of thoughts this sentence sparks in your brain.
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- 879 reads
Beach Hotel
Is anything sadder than ageing Brits and ageing Germans lounging in the sun? Does anything impel you to end your life so young?
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