Tag: Short Story
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FOR RICHER, FOR POORER, FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
Time to do it, enough putting it off, you’ve been gone six months now. As difficult as it is, there’s something therapeutic about clearing out your belongings. Especially in the garage. All the little knick-knacks you’ve kept over the years, never to be used. Some I can sort into boxes, some I can give to…
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INVASIVE SPECIES
The spores floated through the air. No one knew where they had come from. Some said outer space, some said underground, some said the remotest part of the Great Steppe. Some revered as they passed overhead, some reviled. Portents of doom mixed with euphoria. The Great Coming of either a God or a Devil. Alarms…
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IN PRAEPARATIONE
‘Not going to help you much when the flood comes, Noah,’ they sneered at the conspicuous life raft parked in front of the church. Little did they know. Underneath the building, Pastor Michaels rewired the circuit breaker for the thousandth time. ‘I’ll be ready.’ He took another gulp of moonshine, swayed, tripped over his toolbox…
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SOMETHING OR NOTHING?
‘I’m not going down there.’ ‘It’s just a shed.’ ‘An ominous shed and a strange thumping noise.’ ‘What do you think is going to be down there? Be rational.’ ‘You’ve seen horror films, right? Where you sit and say “they shouldn’t go into the dark cellar, why would they do that?”‘ ‘This isn’t a film,…
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EASTERN ROMANCE
‘Authentic Chinese Cuisine’ screamed the signs for the tourists. Which struck her as odd since they were in Ho Chi Minh City and China was 2,000km north. Still, it looked good. Pierce wasn’t convinced. ‘Hygiene standards!’ he puffed, wiping sweat from his brow with his handkerchief. She remembered the debonair gentleman who had swept her…
Iain Kelly 