Category: Short Stories

The Bel Air inside the Bog

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The Bel Air inside the Bog

A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.

The Last Caller

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The Last Caller

Hard-living Jack Stone is celebrating another year of cheating death, but his New Year’s Eve is interrupted by a most unexpected visitor.

Old Man at the Cafe

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Old Man at the Cafe

An old man sits at a cafe never touching his beer. An American sits down next to him. They observe each other, believing themselves superior.

El Salvador

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El Salvador

When Bobby was twenty-one and newly arrived in America, he met a girl from El Salvador.

Mind Shaft

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Mind Shaft

A young woman and a retired gold miner enter a treacherous gold mine, and end up trapped with the remains and artifacts of ancient people.

Ababeel

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Ababeel

I was here in the spirit when prayers ignited hope and optimism within me that my sister was performing Hajj, not mockery.

More Bullfrog Than Prophet

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More Bullfrog Than Prophet

A college instructor, in town for a seminar at the university, decides to visit his friend, to discover that he had died the week before.

The Rising

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The Rising

A little story about a couple of pals.

The Line in the Lake

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The Line in the Lake

Two strangers find themselves on opposite sides of an invisible line which unexpectedly guides them to a fortuitous future reunion.

The Marionettist

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The Marionettist

When playing with dolls gets serious.

Deja Vieux

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Deja Vieux

Martin rescues his mother from her fake armed robberies of bars, while facing down his delusions of huge black crows with metallic talons.

Bootsy

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Bootsy

Bootsy is about a whimsical cat who can predict the future, often with disturbing conclusions. Based on true events.

A Lover’s Vengeance

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A Lover’s Vengeance

A sequel to ‘The Devil Made us do it,’ published in Literary Heist. This pirate tale takes place about 75 years later.

Sanctuary

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Sanctuary

CCTV cameras were in Wren’s lapartment, one of hundreds observing the brain injured residents of the Michigan Semi-Independent Living Center.

The Cage

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The Cage

Two men in cages discuss the same conversation they’ve had for years while recognizing nothing will change for them. They are powerless.

Shade Tree Diplomacy

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Shade Tree Diplomacy

Life is conflict. While we think we know how we’d act as we watch someone else in a dispute, when it’s us we may not be quite so sure.

The Benefit of a Bad Beginning

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The Benefit of a Bad Beginning

A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.