Would you like to read some short stories?
I posted five or six short stories on Kos just to try them out on some readers and, to my surprise and gratitude, the stories made the Spotlight list and got a lot of positive comments.Since then I...
View ArticleNOT a political diary! This is about a book and dogs and a fundraiser for a...
Are you ready for something different?This is a fundraiser for Safe Haven Kennels, a sanctuary for unadoptable dogs that took in eleven dogs from a hoarding situation and will care for them for the...
View ArticleContemporary Literary Fiction: A deeply connected tale
As we have remarked to each other in the weeks since November, it can be hard to focus -- including being able to focus while reading. It is critical now to act against the horror that has befallen us,...
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A Dream of Dogs and Cattle
A Dream of Dogs and CattleI’m not sure if this story is about me or someone else. I woke up this morning with this story in my head, as intense as a real experience. I still remembered every moment;...
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For the holiday season: 9 books for children and young adults that don't lie...
If we were were to dissect all the lies that appear every year in new books about the Native peoples of this continent, we’d be here for a week. Hard as it may be to believe, more published lies are...
View ArticleFlannery O'Conner looks at a Southern, racist mindset . . .
Flannery O’Conner was one of my fave authors when I was in high school. I related so much to how she saw the South (I lived in a small, racist Arkansas town). And she really knew how to write. Here’s...
View ArticleThe Big Toad Of Tibadoodle Swamp and his toadies...a love story
This story is now my defining mental image of the disgusting toad in the white house. I found it quite entertaining, but be warned — don’t read it while eating, or if you have a sensitive stomach....
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Contemporary Fiction Views: The present and the past live together
The best short stories are as rich and complex as any novel. They can contain a universe or a microcosm, a lifetime or an hour. They can be populated with complex characters rich in mixed motives and...
View ArticleOctober's Library: A Short Story a Day for the Halloween Month
Greetings and felicitations, monster kids!Here’s the idea: it’s Halloween month, we all need a distraction from the real-life horrors of the Trump administration, so I figured we could do our own...
View ArticleMany Rivers
*This is a short story that I’m parking here. Humour me, thanks!*October 9, 2019 (A Story for Otter by Michelle A. Palladine, which borrows charactersfrom Charles de Lint) A long, long, long, (very...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP: a DK group of original fiction, poetry & memoir, for fun...
“Something familiar, something peculiar...” from the ‘pens’ of kosaks: our light and sometimes darker tales of life, myth, adventure, romance, science fiction, history, parody, pastiche, epic poetry,...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: "Waystation America", an econopolitical dark...
By intent, ‘though he was newly enthroned, and she a former astronaut, the Emperor of Japan and the Governor-General of Canada flew into Dulles minutes apart, virtually anonymous. They came...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: Out of the Darkness Came a Yule Tide
Yule is a time of spiritual beginnings. Jul, or Yule, is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "wheel." The winter solstice is the turning point in the natural cycle of the year; this darkest night in all...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP: Short Stories That Are Very Short Indeed
Here are some very short stories. By way of introduction, let me just say they are stories that are not only short, but very short. If I'm not mistaken, one is a very short poem disguised as a very...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: Motorcycle, Apples, Cave, Tales, Trees.
Lil pulled off her helmet, unzipped her leathers, scrubbed her knuckles through her silver-flecked dark hair, and grinned at the little girl coming running to the paddock fence. “Hiya, kid.” “Hiya,...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: Diamonds Like Teardrops Fall - A Sean Story.
by Michele Elaine Wilson © 1997Sean had finished the preparations for the evening's business. All the glasses were shining, the bar was stocked, and the floor and tables were clean. He came over to the...
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⏹️⏹️ Original Fiction, Poetry & Memoir For Fun & Progress: Now...
<big>Now playing!!!Dark Redemption, an urban fantasy novel by writer/artist quarkstomper, chapters running Wednesdays mid-evening on all coasts and in-lands for the foreseeable future, if there...
View ArticleIn the Neighborhood: Jack's Pet
Note: This is an experiment—to see if some of my stories might work to fill in on Friday afternoons. If this doesn’t work for the Peeps. please let me know in the comments!First, da rulz:Here is a...
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Contemporary Fiction Views: A wonderful book of windows
Culturally aware educators, especially culturally aware white educators working in a minority-majority district, know the phrase "windows and mirrors". It means students need both kinds of books --...
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In the Neighborhood: Larsson Helps Out
You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder:Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties,...
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