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(yes, this is Yet Another Fiction Prompt) 

a scene which shows two people
who care for each other a great deal
 

“I’m an English major and you’re a Communication Studies major,” Bryan said to Katie.
The silence was short because it was expected.
He continued. “Doesn’t that make it weird that we communicate entirely in lowercase letters?”
“How in the hell—I […]

What a Bizarre Little World, I Thought, Which Lives on the Lens of my Eyeglasses
“Bicuspids,” she says.
I stammer.
She looks at me momentarily, then back at the TV. “Bicuspids. She’s got great bicuspids.”
We sit in each others’ arms for a second evaluating each other, measuring the word against our knowledge of each other. I wonder if […]

More fiction.

In which fire is fundamentally important.
Kyle Pflug

Glen stepped out that morning in a long-sleeved shirt and jeans. He rolled a sticky, stale marshmallow between the thumb and index finger of his left hand absent-mindedly and peed off of the deck, watching the graceful arc vanish into a thick tangle of orange cords and […]

More fragments from the Archipelago story.
Archipelago Fragment — ‘Cuda chase

His foot found itself briefly immersed in an inch of rainwater in a crevassed indent on the road. The water seeped, oozed in his shoe, sogging the sock. It kissed his foot, but didn’t mean it.
When he stood and closed the door behind him he […]


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