Tag: quick fiction
member name: Charles Lennox
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April 14, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
Quick Fiction magazine is now taking orders for their spring issue , and I'd like to give a free copy away to one lucky Gather reader . QF was recently ranked fourth by The Boston Globe among . . .
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August 27, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
The woman stretched her hand into the blackness in search of something to keep her warm but found nothing. Cold and vacant air and the shadowed earth long forgotten by stars and light. Her fingers . . .
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October 08, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
Piggy. That's what we call the fat boy across the street in the purple house. The fat boy we make crawl on all fours without a shirt on so the lonely afternoon sun lashes his pale skin from bone white . . .
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October 10, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
In the neighborhood lived a lion and an antelope and the two fell in love. They were both young and bored and thought themselves misunderstood and took comfort in the other's company. Their love, . . .
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October 11, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
The early morning now and you wake in bed and there, scrawled on the ceiling in black paint or motor oil, is a choice. Sleep all day, it reads. The words light and airy within your head. You notice the . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
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Congratulations! You are the 1,000,000th visitor to this article which means by simply clicking on this ad you will become eligible to receive a special prize in a box professionally . . .
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June 21, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
Sandy is an octopus and not. She was born with seven arms, and in the eyes of the cephalopod world this fact alone disqualifies her from being considered a true octopus. (After all, only males . . .
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June 28, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
"What's taking so long?"
That's me, waiting my turn in this bum human line of depressed and weary souls in this bum and godforsaken drugstore. I look back and there are ten faces, . . .
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July 24, 2007 04:28 PM EDT --
It Could Just Be Your Imagination
Perhaps there was no vacation. No island. No local girl leading you by the hand up the dark volcanic cone. No kiss at its peak. No stars so copious and . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:07 PM EDT --
Dear Charles,
We would like to accept (Unraveled) for Vestal Review. We no longer
publish all our accepted stories on the Web, but continue to publish all of them in
print. Your story will come . . .
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October 09, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The boys drove late in the night wearing the smell of beach and bonfire smoke in their clothing and hair. At a red light he shifted the car to park and stepped out and popped the trunk open and emptied . . .
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October 16, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
The chair is your dad's. A white fabric recliner someone dumped in the alley. The seat cushion is spill stained and the armrests frazzled to the point where thin locks of padding can be tugged out. . . .
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January 07, 2009 01:16 AM EST --
A part of me truly believed that I'd never be able to announce this, but I have fiction forthcoming in Quick Fiction magazine. Quick Fiction consistently publishes a high quality of fiction written . . .
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January 09, 2009 01:24 AM EST --
I have fiction forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly . Randall Brown, head editor, accomplished writer, originally rejected this story. He conveyed his love for the story but hoped that I would apply their . . .
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October 22, 2007 05:50 PM EDT --
Stuart's seven-month pregnant wife is afraid of the wind. She tells him this on a windy day, a day where the tree leaves, all green, tumble end over end down the street, some as fast as the cars . . .
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October 23, 2007 04:36 PM EDT --
He'd been sick all day, not eating, and now there was nothing left to vomit but warm stomach acid and bile. He sipped water from the glass she'd set on the nightstand that morning and the glass . . .
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November 14, 2007 12:38 PM EST --
Begin with a memory. A memory from the childhood you left abandoned somewhere in that uneven and distant horizon, where suns no longer rise, but set and burn the earth top a charred black. Think . . .
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October 30, 2008 09:33 PM EDT --
I have a short short story forthcoming in Robot Melon magazine. It's slated to appear in issue #7. That means it'll be a bit of a wait, as the mag recently put out issue #5 less than a month . . .
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November 20, 2008 01:36 AM EST --
I have new fiction up at Pequin . I wrote this story back when gas prices were climbing like crazy. Now gas prices are dropping. Oh well. Someone will have to come up with a new meaning for this story . . .
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November 22, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Hopefully you're not sick of me saying this just yet, but I have new fiction up again, this time at Wigleaf . The story is titled, Those Who Lose Things , and it features (among other things) a . . .
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