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TzeLin Sam

The Lost Art of Conversation

  • 4
( 1 Reviews )

A Conversation Between Two Young Women – Talking Over Each Other. Amelia: Hey, how’s it going? Britney: Good. And you? Hey did I tell you

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Guardian Hawk

A sunny day in a lively forest. A proud healthy hawk flies through the air, high as the mountains. It sits on a tree branch

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romance
Crystal Walker

Matchmakers

Table of Contents | Serialized Fiction | Romantic Comedy Image created by the author via Canva; Image sourced by Pixabay Bad date after bad date,

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brother
Christina Nordlander

The Silhouette Pine

By the time they got back from the funeral buffet, it had started drizzling. Mum parked behind grandma’s pale yellow VW. Jennifer looked out at

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#Graduation
David Rodeback

Wildfire (a short story)

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( 1 Reviews )

Getting to Maylee’s going-away party at all was a thing. My cousin Jaxson and I took a state highway into the country and turned onto

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#Halloween
Donald J. Bingle

Blind Spot

“I’m standing in the back yard now.” Aaron checked the bars on his cell phone; the signal was strong. “You have to fly out here

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advice
Donald J. Bingle

Episodic Writing vs. Mythic Arcs

A Vintage Blog Post About Writing and Attention Spans Now, I’m not a writer for television (though I’m available–call me, really), but I’m an avid

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#Halloween
Charlotte Rodricks

Halloween Betrothal

  • 4.5
( 1 Reviews )

It hit the floor with a thud. She watched in horror as the pumpkin basket bounced merrily off the floor of the patio scattering her

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Alternate History
Donald J. Bingle

Standing Still

“Are you sure you wanna do this, doc?” The patrolman gestured across the lobby at the subject. “He’s got some sort of a device, with

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cancel culture
Daniel Lyons

The Death of a Professor

Death to Israel’s apologists! Professor Kruger blamed himself for the graffiti sprawled in white spray paint on the bricks of the south wall of Altman

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comedy
Crystal Walker

Meet Angie

A supporting character in the serialized RomCom “Matchmakers” Image created via Canva and using a stock image from Pixabay Recently, I introduced you to Maisie — the

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Ops

Photo by author She rises to refill her coffee mug. A rumble overhead muffled by the roof. Last week of the month, ops. Operations by

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Amanda Cessor

Don’t Touch The Roses

The Ramblin’ Rose was a little florist run by a local eccentric in town named Isaac. It was tucked between the grocer and the bookshop,

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Halloween Story 2023
Andy Spears

iSpy

Who is inside Chelle’s phone?            Chelle couldn’t figure out what was going on with her phone. She kept insisting to

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Capitalism
Tim McDaniel

Meet the New Boss

 “And then over at Hower and Drake, I learned how to play bocce – that’s this game with balls, kind of like bowling – and

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death
Payton White

Sailor’s Sea

As he faded in a hospital room, he stared out the window, bruised eyelids low. The sunlight turned his irises a watery blue. Washed out.

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Cellarella

There once was a young girl whose mother was gravely ill and whose father was an arrogant asshole. He did not care about the woman

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Gene Glotzer

An Errand

Jack walked into the drug store not really remembering why he was there. I really need to start writing stuff down, he thought. I’m getting

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Broadcast

It gets easier once you accept that nobody is coming to save you. Kind of like how those eight hour shifts at Hudson’s used to

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Crystal Walker

Meet Maisie Jones

The main character in the serialized RomCom “Matchmakers” Image created via Canva and using a stock image from Pixabay Taking a little bit of a

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action
Donald J. Bingle

Options

“This was a mistake,” yelled Dave as he stared out the window at the dark, lurching shapes gathering even faster than the gloomy clouds on

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Beauty and the Beast
Bernadette O'Leary-Malcolm

Of Beastly Beauty (Part II)

Of Happier Times and Broken Dreams As Reyon and Raphaela Blackheart grew, so did their bond. Their love was pure and complete. Neither needed anything

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Compassion
John Wimsatt

Fathers Words To His Son

In a moment of father and son time together. The son asked his father what must I do to become a better person. His father

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Dystopian
Charles Bastille

Thirty Minutes

Can one phone alert change the world? Trigger warnings: Language, parental loss and talk of suicide I’m in freefall. Moses, who runs the canteen, says

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big bang
Donald J. Bingle

Story Choices

This entire story already exists, but you are only experiencing it one word at a time as you move forward through it. You could, if

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Bitter Forever and Ever and Ever

There’s this one coffee machine at work that always makes the coffee bitter. The flavor of coffee’s been changed. The brand of coffee’s been changed.

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The Iinglish Of Dynya: Part 1

Mr. Bunch woke up at exactly seven-thirty on Tuesday morning. He had woken up at seven-thirty on Tuesday morning ever since the hotel had introduced

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friends to lovers
Kelsey Bjork

May I Have This Dance?

I give mirror-me finger guns as I come to an unfortunate conclusion at the most inopportune moment: I hate every article of clothing that I

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Rabbit Hole

I was the one man standing up to save the world from Satanist Aliens; that’s how bad things got. I used to be a family

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flash fiction
Alex Mathers

The Time-Lapse Clearing

I knew something had changed the moment I stepped into the clearing – a hidden oasis in a desert of pine and oak. The temperature

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drama
TzeLin Sam

The Unexpected Dinner Guest

This is it. I thought to myself as I walked out of the arrival hall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It had been many years

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Abuse
Christina Nordlander

Put Her Down

The first time Jörgen and Malena used the threat was when Katja was ten. Qetesh must have been one year old; Katja had been nine

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criminal
Robin Honigsberg

A Criminal Affair

  • 4.5
( 7 Reviews )

Special Agent Jordan O’Neill was vacationing for the first time in more than five years at a five-star resort in the Cook Islands. She wanted

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Crystal Walker

Meet Arnold (aka “Glitter”)

A supporting character in the serialized RomCom “Matchmakers” Saving the best for last in this group of friends, meet Arnold (aka “Glitter.”) “Arnold is a

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death
Christina Nordlander

Tattoo Daughter

It astonished me when I realised there were people who designed urns for babies. Cat-eared, pink, baby blue, shaped like a teddy bear or a

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comedy
TzeLin Sam

An Important Decision

You shift your weight from one leg to the other fully aware of the fact that it is a bad habit of yours to lean

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#lonely
Gene Glotzer

An After Dinner Drink

Gail had finished her dinner, but, like always, her father still had food on his plate. She always got a head start as he never

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Christian
Gene Glotzer

For the Glory

Aaron let himself into the studio. He hung his coat on the rack. There was one other coat there. He walked down the hall to

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Fiction
Andy Spears

Fresh Rack

James found himself sitting alone in his car at around 8:30 each night, wet from a mixture of his own sweat and the sprinklers on

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champagne
Robin Honigsberg

The Cruise Ship:  Tidal wave

  • 5
( 1 Reviews )

Lyla stumbled on the deck, making sure not to drop her bottle of champagne. She and her husband, Cameron, had another fight. Lyla had gone

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Goldie Greedman

Goldie Greedman was one of the meanest men who ever lived. From his birth he was heavily pampered by his wealthy parents and told that

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Rebecca Johnson

Things We Don’t Talk About

  • 4.5
( 1 Reviews )

I only heard from Lizzy once after she left home. More than ten years had passed by the time she called. Evan was asleep upstairs,

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flash fiction
Nick Gaudio

Whelp

. Leave a Reviewfeature0 Pros (optional) Type new or select existing pros Cons (optional) Type new or select existing cons Save my name, email, and

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Fact or Fiction?

The distant train whistle doesn’t sound romantic, now. She gathered her coffee as thoughts of chemical spills from train derailments stained the sound she loved.

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crossdressing
Christina Nordlander

Glitter

When I moved out, I bought nail polish for the first time. Almost an entire row of little glass bottles: frosted, sparkling, pearlescent. Lipstick in

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afterlife
Shannon Hilson

Satellites and Violets

  • 4.9
( 3 Reviews )

Gina was old now by nearly anyone’s standards. Her face was wrinkled and her joints creaked when she moved, especially first thing in the morning

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Evil
Robin Honigsberg

The Inheritance: A Short Story

Melissa said goodbye to the last of the mourners, closing the door with a sigh of relief. “It was so hard pretending I was devastated

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flash fiction
Tanya Hall

Petal Pills

A 500-word flash fiction piece. “Hydroxyzine.” “Excuse me?” I cleared my throat and pointed to the row of small circular welts on her exposed arm.

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baking
Andy Spears

Bourbon-Flavored Baptist

  • 4.5
( 1 Reviews )

Everyone at Connor Street Baptist loved Billy. He was a short, round man with a forgettable, round face framed by large round glasses. His sparse

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Absurd
Matthew Portman

Le Petit

Photo by ÉMILE SÉGUIN on Unsplash or  ‘The Little’ By Matthew Portman April 27th, 2020 I’ve never seen a piece quite like it. Le Petit,

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creative writing
Shannon Hilson

Fire Season

Something was very wrong with the fields in Drift City, but no one could say exactly what the problem was. What was once a fertile

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Crime
Sean Patrick Durham

The Battersea Park Bank Job

I miss my modelling days. They were good days, I felt like I was going somewhere in life. In the end, I realised, I wasn’t.

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contemporary
Quillful Writer

Holmes Institute: Ch. 1: Choices

[Content Notes: Swearing | Jasper reference] Summary: Being one of the top students at Holmes Institute involves more responsibilities than Jasper Madero really wants. Luckily,

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breakup
David Rodeback

Marie (a very short story)

  • 4.7
( 7 Reviews )

I met Marie in the hallway after school. “The race is tomorrow,” I said. “We should sign up.” “The three-legged race?” “Yeah.” Running the three-legged

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Best Friends

“It’s all happening now!” Karen said with a mixture of sass and desperation only she could pull off. “Lovely day for a funeral.” “Shut up,

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book group
Bo Lowry

Coughing Fit

  • 5
( 1 Reviews )

I was annoyed when my husband started referring to our book group as “The Cult”, but mostly because part of me knew he was right.

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Fight
Donald J. Bingle

Poetry Slam

I thought that I would never see A fight regarding poetry. Life can venture nothing worse, Than fisticuffs o’er flowing verse. * If poems be

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attraction
Tanya Hall

The Greatest Gig

Andrew tapped a button on his synth allowing the long bass notes to shudder down his spine. Shifting from one leg to another in a

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I Swear, it’s Not a Cult

I need to develop an audience.  I need to develop an audience that is dedicated.  I need to develop an audience that is dedicated to

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Annie Ucci

Because I Love You

Winters were always Niko’s favorite.  He loved the snow, and the cold, and the dark, vast nights. He loved being able to wear nice sweaters

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Romantic Comedy
Crystal Walker

Matchmakers | Episode 2 | The Girls

Photo by Viktoria Alipatova from Pexels Hearing the bang of the garbage truck emptying a dumpster in the alley behind her apartment, Maisie opens her

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Don't read while hungry!
Vanessa Lewis

“Dad’s Donut Shop”

Everyone said the business was a crazy thing to invest in, but dad loved donuts. We knew how much of a morning person he was,

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