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Midnight at the Crossroads Diner by Myna Chang
October 4, 1970Tishomingo, Oklahoma Tammy lingered over a cigarette rimmed red with someone else’s lipstick. She exhaled, the wisp of stolen smoke rising to join the music that seeped from the diner’s radio. She stubbed out the burning ember, and as the last spark spiraled heavenward, she closed her eyes…
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Los Angeles, 1952, Part 1 by Wayne Turmel
Language Warning. This story contains language that may put off some readers. Be aware it takes place 60 years ago, and things weren’t seen the same as they are now. Also, any discerning fiction reader should know that the opinions expressed by our characters don’t always reflect the opinions of…
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Waning Time by Suzanne Cottrell
Fine grains of white sandflow silently from one hourglass globe to the other. Each grain, an increment of time,a new beginning, an end,a life, a death. Marks the passage of timewithout interruption,the inevitabilityof a life cycle. One globe empties, void of life,as one fills with grainsof sand, a mound oflife experiences. ____________________________________________________________ Suzanne Cottrell lives…
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thisis(not)thewayidie by Helena Pantsis
This is not the way I die. I’ve seen it in the cards; in the stars; in the lines on my palm, with the gun at my head and the noose ‘round my neck — I can’t be scared, this is not my death. I’ve been here before, I live…
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