Tag: writing flash fiction
member name: Charles Lennox
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June 05, 2006 04:48 PM EDT --
My roommate finds an animal on the street and wants to have it as his pet.
"Pets are not allowed in the complex," I tell him, . . .
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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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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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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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May 09, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
Congratulations!
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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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April 29, 2008 04:18 PM EDT --
Sir! Magazine has accepted my new story 'What the Other is Thinking' for publication in its premiere issue, which is slated to appear sometime in June. Once the story is up, I'll post another . . .
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October 06, 2006 04:57 PM EDT --
Out-of-towners visit to try our famous split pea soup. To bury a forgotten relative. When they happen upon the floating girl they think she's a ghost. No, no, a local then has to explain. She . . .
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March 28, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
The Gifted Citizens of Pearl City - Episode #01
Presenting Our Hero
By Charles Lennox
It is our honor to present to you our hero: Bill Macy.
Bill, by some miraculous accident, found . . .
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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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