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December 16, 2024
Poetry Minjzi

5 In The Morning

At once, both within and without that dazzling crowd. You go from one to the other. Predictable, tedious, careless people. Darkness, and only a blinding light right in your eyes - looking at you. Deafening music drowns and bites your twisted thoughts. Drinks…
December 16, 2024
Mystery Stories Marvel Chukwudi Pephel

I Professional Gamer

This is Betty, the voicemail said. I got your number from Jess. Why weren't you in school today? Everyone missed you. Sorry, I meant everyone missed your noise. Mr. Lagerback taught coding today. Hope you'd show up tomorrow. Or would what stopped you from…
December 16, 2024
Poetry Minjzi

Impression Of Delight

Let me enfold you, among the whispering of the night I say. It’s three in the morning, the end of December. She tensely rubs in and peels off her skin, sour from unease. With trembling steps, she runs from the puzzled reality. Knocks down all ruins and slumps…
December 16, 2024
Fantasy Stories Ocelotlzin

What Is Love

What is love? Anno Domini 934 King’s Aethelstan invasion. A forest at the north end of Scotland. “We need to be faster, let’s go to the woods and try to hide there.” Those were the words of Aedan to his family. The group of people were running from their…
December 16, 2024
Poetry Paweł Markiewicz

A Day From Life Of Klaus Werner Swamp-Man

The marvelous winter has come with the most tender Christmas Eve Klaus Werner Swamp-Man awaits dream august Moment is revealed Klaus a forester lives alone in a clear home amidst the grove In the evening praying by table he enjoyed freedom of silence Oracular…
December 16, 2024
Horror Stories Steven Bruce

The Package

The two men, dressed in hotel staff uniforms, stood before the lift in the quiet foyer. "You never ask," the older man said and thumbed the button. "But why?" the younger man said. "Listen, if you’re ever to take over from me, stop asking questions." "But…
December 16, 2024
Poetry Minjzi

All Is At Odds With Us

All is at odds with us. Doomed were the threads that tensely held the alliance of us. Amongst the wet gloomy walls, she was slowly walking. With each step further and further away from us. I used to call her Liu Lu. The elusive, unplausible, unpredictable Liu…
December 16, 2024
Flash Fiction Maxwell Bado

The Pebble And The Charlatan

When I was a boy, I used to walk through the woods with my father. One day, on an Autumn hike, my father entrusted me with a rock. It was small and square. A soft, reddish-brown, little stone. He placed the stone in my hand and said, “Hold on to this stone.…
November 25, 2024
Poetry Minjzi

Doomed Were The Threads

All is at odds with us. Doomed were the threads that tensely held the alliance of us. We are floating amongst the dreams and the past of us. Tranquillity of that fire will never arise. You thrive in the corners, in the inflows of me. Cut in in the slits, you…
November 25, 2024
Mystery Stories Marvel Chukwudi Pephel

This Way To The Berry Desideratum

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." – Jorge Luis Borges Earth, circa 2200. A tree wilts and dies, gradually, To the roots. A cormorant glides across the surface of a sea, Picking a dead stinking fish. Golden Duke Hemlocks are…
November 25, 2024
Poetry Minjzi

Vanished Possibilities

It’s crossing over you and drowning you into immensity. Wrapped, intertwined, buried with vanished possibilities. You stand alone on the road where sorrow lives. And remember, remember how to rescue yourself from the silhouette of the past, stuck in your…
November 25, 2024
Flash Fiction Syed Hassan Askari

I Am A free Man

The sun hung low in the sky, covered by the clouds, casting a dim, shadowy light against the crumbling walls of Ghulam Ali’s small house. He sat with his mother inside the prayer room, a prayer mat laid in front of him. The silence prevailed everywhere as he…

It was supposed to just be a joke.  Really…

Josh, Pat and Casey drove over to the house of Rachel Vessing with the intent of play a bit of a joke on her 17th birthday.  The “mooning” of the attractive redhead while singing “happy birthday” was intended to in fun.   They were sure that Rachel won’t be offended and would take the gesture in the manner intended.

Hey, it was just a joke, right?  But unbeknownst to the boys, Rachel’s father, the Reverend Josiah Vessing, was at home that night and not at bible study as was usually the case for a Wednesday evening in the fall.  The widower was protective of his only daughter so what happened was not totally unexpected.  So the boys were surprised when both Rachel and Reverend Vessing opened the door.  Turned around and bent over, the boys thought that just Rachel was there when she gasped “oh my god” at the sight of their bare buttocks.  But they quickly realized their mistake when they heard a male voice boom out “what the hell??”

Fleeing off the porch while simultaneously trying to buckle their pants, boys might have been a bit too distracted to hear the reverend’s final comment to them as they ran off his property.

 

“That is not what I was talking about last week when I said that we all need to turn the other cheek…”

 

 

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Author’s Bio:   Tom Schmidt is a Chemical Engineer working in medical diagnostics in upstate New York.  He enjoys creative writing and has been published on www.short-story.me as well as on www.fartherstars.com and in www.overmydeadbody.com in the past.  He is currently working on the “Paul Garigan Crime Mysteries”, a collection of short stories centered around a Malibu based police detective which he hopes to publish in the future.  Tom can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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