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manpreet kaur
29-Dec-2022
TW: Contains some descriptions of blood and violencePhilip smiled at me as I shuffled towards his counter. ‘Morning Frank, how can I help you?’Good. If Philip was in a cheerful mood, that would make this much easier. I smiled back at him. ‘One course of antibiotics, please.’...
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Mom works. She never picks me up from school, and two miles is too close for a bus pickup, which is fine by me because I like cutting through the woods. Especially on autumn days...
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Depression sounded like a half-witted song, one that couldn’t be sung at home or school or the church. It was something so ephemeral that it seemed to have lost its meaning. It...
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I remember my childhood in bits and pieces, like framed pictures of specific events that exist independently of all the other memories. There was the time I challenged my brother...
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“How can you tell the Tree is a girl, Gran?” The shea butter applied to my scalp in neat little rows slid onto my forehead and mixed with beads of sweat as I sat on the front...
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The farmer’s market buzzed around him, his arms heavy with his cloth totes filled to the brim. There’d been a lovely selection of candles this morning. Now he waited among th...
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A slate-grey sky hung heavy over the President James K. Polk Memorial rest area on Interstate 64 in southern Indiana. At the fueling station, eighteen wheelers lined up under bri...
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Snip, snip, snip. I’m becoming something new. I was a bolt of fabric, long and wonderful and wrapped many times around myself, hugging my own form. I had once been thread, a mu...
Read Story...What You Can Do With Your Book
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You present me with a gift bag as if legions of angels will descend, trumpeting your thoughtfulness in remembering my [insert celebratory event here]. ...
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The air hung heavy with the foggy dew of a February morning. ...
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See, you all think I am about to say I don’t regret what I did. I just did it for fame. But what you don't know is that murder happens all the time under your pretty little nos...
Read Story...SOUTHBOUND
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Doralea looked out the window of the southbound train. Mid-October leaves dappled the Kentucky hillsides in fiery oranges and burning reds, dull yellows and rusty browns with a f...
Read Story...And the Radio Said, There’s Another Shot Dead
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The air hung heavy with the foggy dew of a February morning. ...
Read Story...Blood and Cookies
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Sometimes you just have to leave the dead bodies behind and move on....
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This could not wait till morning. The craving came on so sudden and intense that resisting never even crossed her mind. For some reason Claudia needed fudge. Maybe it was hormone...
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I dedicate this story to my partner and to everyone who has carried or is carrying the burden of grief....
Read Story...Silence
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There is a peace at sunrise that surpasses all understanding. It's a renewal. A feeling that anything is possible. I’d like to say I drag myself from the comfort of my bed ever...
Read Story...Moonlight and Madness
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28-Dec-2022
Your eyes pour the moonlight on my path as I turn my back to you. In the dead of the night, I walk with my family, away from my home, my street, my town, and what was till yester...
Read Story...Silence
simranjeet singh
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There is a peace at sunrise that surpasses all understanding. It's a renewal. A feeling that anything is possible. I’d like to say I drag myself from the comfort of my bed ever...
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When the police forcibly entered 43-year-old Paulina Fiore’s apartment, they found her lifeless body on the floor of the kitchen, covered in mysterious bruises. The lead detective immediately suspected homicide and ordered an autop...
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The big day had finally arrived at the School for Gifted Children, and the dean practically kowtowed from his own office....
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“Shh, Ethan, they’re going to hear us.” John whispered....
Read Story...Seeds
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The tree, like most things, is Beth's idea. It is August, late summer, too hot for TV and too cool for bathing suits. School starts again next week, fourth grade. Now is the perf...
Read Story...How to Brew, Serve and Drink Turkish Coffee
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Turkish coffee is a relatively easy to make and delicious hot beverage. Making and drinking Turkish coffee allows you to experience a small part of an elusive and exotic culture....
Read Story...The Cherry Tree Ring
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“Betty, I’m home! Come n’ see what I’ve got for ye.” Larry stood in the doorway filled with joy and excitement. Betty had expressed how a blossoming cherry tree would l...
Read Story...Time is a healer
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Leila grabbed her thermos of coffee and slipped out of the door of her trailer, her breath transforming into a vortex of fog as the cold shocked her into a gasp. Pulling her trai...
Read Story...Mothering
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Carmen invades my mind a lot, even years after her astonishing death. Life is strange like that, sometimes. How people who didn’t necessarily have a starring role in your life ...
Read Story...The Wrapping Paper Store
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“This is the twentieth time we’ve heard All I Want For Christmas Is You,” I say to Alicia. ...
Read Story...A small favor
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The kids at the library all quiet down as the man begins to speak again. His voice is loud and strong, not overbearing but calming and reassuring, like a wave at the beach it’s...
Read Story...A Handful of Herbs
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28-Dec-2022
Every time I visit you, which is roughly once a year, I notice, the sharp edges of the glass, cemented on top of the high compound wall have become fewer and grown smoother....
Read Story...Ten for you, Twenty-six for me
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The metro I take to work, the polluted air of Mumbai, the faces I smile at and the faces that don’t smile back— they are stained a coffee-brown. The same color as old pages a...
Read Story...A Handful of Herbs
gagan middha
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Every time I visit you, which is roughly once a year, I notice, the sharp edges of the glass, cemented on top of the high compound wall have become fewer and grown smoother....
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