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Jul 8, 201910 min'Song For A Father' by Jakob KongerOnce, upon coming of age, the son of a land-owning man asked to receive his inheritance early. He understood that, per tradition, he was...
Jul 8, 201919 min'Prelude To Murder' by Dawn DeBraalShe stuck out her thumb, putting on her biggest smile. Her mother would not approve. Janeen got the semi-truck to stop for her. “Where...
Jul 8, 201912 min'Hosting Duties' by Mary Hannah TerzinoThey were watching a re-run of The Lucille Ball Show. “Be there in a jiffy!” Lucy said into the telephone. “How long, exactly, is a...
Jul 8, 20196 min'Chernobyl Wolves' by William FaloI tucked three books under my shirt as I got ready to leave. The owner was in the backroom and he wouldn’t miss a few books, besides he...
Jul 8, 20196 min'Siren Song' by Christina RossoWe haven’t always been like this, my sisters and I. Gnarled creatures wailing tunes of melancholy and death, waiting for the one who got...
Jul 8, 201916 min'The Flight of the Cuckoo' by Joseph DarlingtonIt was a sad day for Ivor Williams. A sad day for the Cuckoo. It was the first day of the last week that the Cuckoo would make its run....
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