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• Fashion victim

  
  Foolish Notions — Authority: 125
  Jared hates shopping for clothes. It’s trying on new things that annoys him most. All that dressing and undressing in a public place makes him hot and sweaty. And the curtains in the changing rooms never close properly, there’s always still some gap. But he has to suffer it. He finds a few possibilities and takes ...
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• Wednesdays Three Word Wednesday

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 424
  The words over at Three Word Wednesday are errant, hanker and murky. Something in the way of social commentary. Glutton I am the shadow that crosses your mirror when you start to look away; I am the smoke, the errant vapor, which disappears when you turn your head slightly on murky street corners. I am doubt, ...
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• Interview With Michelle Dwyer - WOW! Spring 2009 Fiction Contest Runner Up

  
  WOW! Women On Writing Blog — Authority: 128
  Michelle Dwyer’s love for writing began in high school. She’d studied creative writing and soon after, longed to become a published author. However circumstances arose, causing her to join the military while pursuing business classes instead. Despite receiving high accolades for her military service, she felt ...
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• Builder’s bum

  
  Foolish Notions — Authority: 125
  Mike was one of the first in his school to let his jeans hang low, showing off his CK underpants. He took all the jokes, that it looked like he’d farted and his arse had fainted. But he didn’t care. The girls thought it was sexy, his trousers almost off already. And Mike got used to the look, found it comfortable. ...
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• Wheelbarrows (too many)

  
  A Salted — Authority: 108
  I have a tiny flash up at Stacatto Fiction:Wheelbarrows (too many)
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• Short story: Crimes Against Science Fiction

  
  Jay Garmon [dot] Net — Authority: 116
  I want to give a shout out to Suzanne Vincent and the editing crew over at Flash Fiction Online , who gave this story one of the kindest and most encouraging rejection letters Ive ever received. This was really my first stab at flash fiction, and as such its rather derivative -- I was channeling a bit of Douglas ...
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• Teenage fantasy

  
  Foolish Notions — Authority: 125
  Carl clutters the floor of the sci-fi/fantasy section. His shoulder blades lean on a length of Michael Moorcocks. He lisps through elaborate orthodontic work to relate to an unseen someone, via his mobile, that his life is over. Dictators have stolen his freedom and destroyed his will to live. He drags the ...
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• Hotel Aloha

  
  The view from here — Authority: 462
  by Kathleen After graduation in May, 2008, Daisy and I started at Salinger Brothers. The economy had flat-lined; layoffs deluged every bank. But Daisy’s Uncle Bernie was vice-chairman. Typically an analyst’s first year is volunteered slavery—running spreadsheets nonstop for eighteen hours. Thanks to the ...
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• Sunday Scribblings - Interview

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 424
  The prompt over at Sunday Scribblings is “interview.” I blame the three hours I had in the car, crossing the Midwest, for this. Interview After 20 years with the same firm, I’m let go from my job as a CPA – a “downsizing of staff due to these tough economic times.” More likely, it’s a cost savings ...
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• Microfiction Monday #4

  
  stony river — Authority: 127
  Welcome to Microfiction Monday, where a picture only paints 140 characters. Heres this weeks picture, and my story to go with it: OOPSIE... Mum explained that faeries always disappear when little girls grow up. We never told her that, in our case, the lawnmower had ...
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• ...

  
  The Devil wears Red Shoes — Authority: 120
  She knew this was coming; shes seen it from a thousand miles away. He touched her face as he said the words, as if hes trying to make the blow a little bearable. "Its not that Im incapable of loving. Its just that I cant love you. Youre not the one. Im sorry..."
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• ‘Twas a dark and stormy night….for flashing!

  
  SEx - Silver Expressions — Authority: 428
  Fade in….An old mansion sits on a bluff overlooking a stormy sea. In the background lightning flashes and the sound of thunder booms in the distance. Okay, okay. It’s a bit cliche, I know. lol! But it helps bring me to my topic for today’s flash…. Setting the Scene . Obviously, a scene such as the one above ...
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• Short Circuit - win a copy of the indispensible guide to the short story!

  
  TaniaWrites — Authority: 112
  There will be much much  more on this over the next few weeks and months, but for right now, head over to Salts blog to win a copy of Short Circuit -  the hot-off-the-press Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by my great friend and colleague, the wondrous and extremely hard-working Vanessa Gebbie. ...
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• I Found a Cool Story the Other Day, #9

  
  Frederation — Authority: 419
  Everybody has some sort of talent. We don’t usually think of these skills as superpowers, but maybe our expectations are set a little too high. That’s the idea behind  today’s cool story, a little gem by Leslie A. Dow called, “ My Superpower ,” featured at Flash Fiction Online. I guarantee it will leave ...
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• The Gallagher-von-Durfeldoms

  
  Very Short Novels — Authority: 98
  We are the family of everyone who means us no harm, whatever the results of what they do. We love Pizza Friday, snow days, and getting into pajamas in the afternoon when we’ve spent the day at the beach. In fact, Gallagher-von-Durfeldom heaven is a Friday snow day near the ocean sharing a pie in our pjs. We hate ...
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• Words Per Minute

  
  The Other Aaron — Authority: 124
  The man with nine fingers leans forward, his face cut with shadows and light under the lamp. "You got em, Manny?" "Sure." Manny places a crinkled paper sack on the table, reaches inside, and produces a rag. He unwraps the first layer of the rag, revealing dark stains on the folds underneath."Five choices this ...
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• Err...Duh!

  
  The Devil wears Red Shoes — Authority: 120
  He looked at her while she was reading the paper and having a sip of her coffee. He squinted at her, as if tunnel vision were to give him a better perspective. "You hold too many secrets. You hide too many things." He said accusingly. She never looked away from what she was reading and gently put her cup down. ...
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• Look at the sky

  
  Foolish Notions — Authority: 125
  Look at the sky. Loads of it. Blue. All blue. And the only thing. Between me. And it. Is air. Millions of it. Tons. I only need. A lungful. Or two. Right now. I’d settle. For one. I’m getting. None. But it’s. The stupid. Whistling. Sound. In my. Throat. That’s going. To. Kill me. First. Above me. Comes ...
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• Flash Fiction Friday: Designer Skirts and Alien Abductions

  
  BestScienceFictionStories.com — Authority: 415
  Today we go down under for two flash fiction stories from the Australian web site Antipodean SF . Here are a pair of funny stories that both come from the January 2009 edition of AntiSF. Good stuff. The Rebel by Julie Cohen Wornan Instead of buying brand name clothes, a woman makes her own skirt and actually ...
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• Flash Fiction Friday # 11: Blind ....

  
  MarQe 's Study — Authority: 478
  ~ ~ Blind ... She was promised a beating & a reward. Blindfolded, not knowing what implement would be used upon her, cold . Her collar had helped tie her to the bed & stoically she had taken 36 strokes, sound & hard. Now she lay, still in darkness, her tormentors tongue whipping her sex with its ...
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