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25 Most Recent Mainstream Short Stories

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Girls Got Nothin'! by Mark Lichterman
Once a month, the boys from each of the four decks were given the opportunity to see a movie at the local theater, if Captain Whyet approved the film. This day it was the turn of Eisenhower Dormitory, deck two, and Mitchell was looking forward to seeing that week’s double feature of “Tarzan Trium..
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God is Always Watching! by John Coppolella
A close call that could have cost her everything, but God was watching over her and had everything under control...
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God Is In Control by Adele Gill
With the scourge of racism front and center in this country, and with the violent, agenda-driven anarchists threatening our streets and burning down our cities. We weep over what is, and wonder what will be ahead for all of us. These things, combined with Covid-19 infirmity, fears and social isolati..
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God Is in Control--Really? by Adele Gill
Faith is not as complicated as some would have you believe. And it is, through gratitude to God, and trusting Him for whatever you need, that the remedies to fear, confusion and negativity are found...
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God Is Our Help In Every Situation by Adele Gill
God is available to all of us in both good times, and most especially, in difficult times. When He's at the center of your life, it's all good...
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God's 7 Promises for Y-O-U by Adele Gill
You may ask “What has God promised those who love Him?” Well scripture tells us that God has promised us the following 7 things, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior:..
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God's Blessing by Lorraine Harris
Despite an unfortune accident, my husband was blessed with God's Protection...
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God's Carrot by Mark Lichterman
The electrical contact of lips upon lips and body against body caused an immediate, non-holy reaction as blood pumped into millions of soft, sponge-like cells and Mitchell’s penis jerked upward and moved outward...
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God's Love for You by Adele Gill
God’s Love for you is boundless. As we turn towards Him, accepting and sharing His Love, He provides so many blessings...
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Read excerpt from God's Promise ..... God's Promise ..... by Paul Nipperess BMin
:) A simple view of God's Promise to man ..... :) ..
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Going on #1 : Ina by Mark Lichterman
Careful, some suggestive language here. _______________________________________ As the girls came closer, as though on cue, the boys stopped talking and, as boys do, appraised them. One girl, the blonde, was short and dumpy and beyond all consideration. The other, a familiar, deepl..
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Going on #3: ‘50 Pontiac by Mark Lichterman
Careful! If you are offended or embarrass easily, do not read this!____________________________________ In the unflattering light of day Ina Dorfmann’s thighs were thick, dimpled and heavy. But in romantic moonlight, even in bug-splattered romantic moonlight, Ina Dorfmann’s thighs were..
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Going on #4: Ice Cream?? by Mark Lichterman
A very funny sexual situation here, however, CAREFUL! If you are offended or embarrass easily, do not read this! ____________________________________ Mitchell looked at Ina through the light of the bug-splattered windshield: at her sloping, milk-white breasts; at the areolae of her large, da..
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Going on#2:Babysitting by Mark Lichterman
Careful! If you are offended or embarrass easily, do not read this!____________________________________ Concurrently, as if having the same thought at the same time, each tried, single-handedly, to unbutton the impossible to unbutton—especially in that position—steel buttons of the other’s Levi’..
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Gold and Silver by Mark Lichterman
No matter what the ads might say… Think about it! What the hell could you do with an American Eagle? Other than a “dealer”... who knows what the value of that coin is, and how much change to give you for that cart of groceries? ..
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GON #12: Day 2 Together 1(R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
When a committed man and woman are together, in time a part of their– usually friendly, usually humorous repartee will turn to good natured bantering...
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GON #13: Day 2 Together 2 by Mark Lichterman
Sitting for hours, clapping weakly for the endless jumble of words, the meaning in many... in most cases of which I could not even imagine. Clapping a bit harder for what I considered was comical, or what I considered as risqué or what was presented with a bit of theatrical technique...
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GON #2: Cyber Romance PG13 by Mark Lichterman
As far as family, last year my mother became very ill and was hospitalized for over a month. At the time, my step-father was still living at their home, so I took him to my house while my mother was still in the hospital...
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GON #5: The Meeting by Mark Lichterman
And, okay. Sure, the weekend with Barbara might all be wishful thinking, but I’m an older guy and sometimes do need ‘em, so I went to my local drug store and purchased a fresh supply of ‘Viagra’ – so, I’m ready, God willing, at any time – with ‘Viagra’ as my back up. Or maybe, so to speak, my ‘front..
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GON #6: Allerton Hotel (PG13) by Mark Lichterman
So again, let me state right here and now, Barbara’s weight not a deterrent. The sight of Barbara’s curvy, ‘chubby’ body hardly a deterrent, actually just the opposite...
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GON #7: Loving Barbara (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
The shower off now. Standing within the tub pulling the towel from side to side across her back, I watched as Barbara stepped from the tub and stood nude before the mirror brushing her hair...
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GON #8: Day One; Together 3 by Mark Lichterman
No longer using the pink cocktail straw, drinking the Margarita directly from the large bell shaped glass and coming away with some salt crystal's clinging to her lips, which she licked away...
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GON 1:The Writer&Poet by Mark Lichterman
At my age now, sixty-four , possibly a bit lonely or possibly… More than a bit possibly wanting to feel a sense of connection to a woman again, even if I did not physically know the woman… Or even what she looks like...
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GON 3: Old Ladies (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
Hell! We were all in need and here comes — off a boat in beautiful Westlake Lake, two older, possibly well heeled gentlemen, that we assumed the women assumed ‘were’ well heeled middle-aged gentlemen that had moored a boat to a pier of one of the fancy restaurant docks and came ashore for diner...
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GON 4: The Arraignment by Mark Lichterman
A room reservation for myself’? Thinking: Is this an invitation ‘to’, or ‘not’ to make a reservation for myself for the two days, ‘and’ two nights… then, ‘Uh-oh’ What do I do? Does she except me, or even ‘want’ me to spend the nights with her, sleeping with her...
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GON#10: Day 1; Together 5 (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
Now, in Mitchell Lipensky’s ‘reality’… In Mitchell Lipensky’s Reality: in his mind, in ‘his’ eyes, this middle aged woman that he lay alongside is a dream that came to life, and in his eyes this woman is lovely...
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GON#11: Day 1; Together 6 by Mark Lichterman
Knowing what quite probably would be happening immediately, her fingers now tighter entwined within his hair, holding him, forcing his head even closer…..
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GON#9:Day One; Together 4 by Mark Lichterman
Hesitating… Speaking softly. Barbara’s eyes closed, the sound of her voice as though within a tightly sealed sphere of light containing only her and me... Poetry by: ???/ Alias : Barbara Longford ..
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Good Taste by Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can’t help brooding on the man who seduced and left her many years ago. ..
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Grand Fenwick, Massachusetts and the Business World by Wilfried Voss
In my mind I worked on a strategy to repair the hot tub myself. Over the years I had watched repairmen coming and going and charging for work that they couldn’t explain and didn’t solve the problem at hand. ..
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Grand Fenwick, Massachusetts and the Last Farewell by Wilfried Voss
Living in Grand Fenwick involves maintaining a love-hate relationship, but that is a story that shall be told another time. During the last four years we had received, accepted and then rejected numerous offers for our house, wasted seven real estate agents on the way, until, finally, we had enough...
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Grand Fenwick, Massachusetts and the Meaning of Life by Wilfried Voss
The people of Grand Fenwick are highly allergic to any changes in their lifestyle, especially when they include modern-times improvements that the rest of the United States of America already enjoys. ..
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Great Anticipation by Adele Gill
It is so important to pray and share with others what God is doing in your life, so that they, too, may live in hope, knowing His unconditional love for them...
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Happy Fucking Birthday by Thomas Archer
Opening chapter of my novel BURNT POPCORN AND CHEAP PERFUME...
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View Photo of Hard Hat Riots of 1970’s Read excerpt from Hard Hat Riots of 1970’s Hard Hat Riots of 1970’s by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette
Written by Chris L. Joanet, Retired Union Carpenter, Women & Human Rights Activist since 1970..
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Harley Dreams by Debra Purdy Kong
A woman is desperate to escape physical and emotional encumbrances, if only for a short while. Published in NetAuthor's E2K, May 2002 and Sunpiper Press, June 2005...
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Healing Spirits by Rosalie Heart
Moving form Maine to New Mexico as a single mom was an adventure. A loud knock on my door at 5AM was a wake up call to healing...
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Her Daddy's Hand by Bobbi Duffy
Sometimes we learn things about our loved ones that inspire us to be better people..
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Her's? You Saw It? by Mark Lichterman
“Yeah, really! An’ guess what else.” Not waiting for Mitchell to guess, “She lets guys see her, uh, thing,” whispering, “if the guy’ll show her his thing, an’ she knows Jewish guys got different kind’s’a things then us Italian guys and she don’t know no Jewish guys so she’s never seen a Jewish, y..
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Here I Am Lord! by Adele Gill
In the course of our lives, we sometimes do encounter people who may see things very differently-even radically different-- than we do. And it’s ok. We are all entitled to believe what we want. ..
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HEY, LIPPY by Mark Lichterman
She’d been holding the thought down, but allowing it to surface, Marsha realized this paradise that she so loved as a child, without friends and family was just a place. A place that could be lonelier than the city where ‘at least’ she’d have a warm, dry home, transportation, a telephone, a televisi..
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Hi, My Name is Laura... by Laura Spinella
This is the first entry for my website blog...
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Holding On To Glass by Drew Carpenter
This story attempts to explore the dynamics of a couple's relationship while letting the reader decide why the relationship is troubled. ..
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View Photo of Hole in Her Head Read excerpt from Hole in Her Head Hole in Her Head by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Is great art a door into another universe? Or is it simply a slice of pathology? This story appeared in the October 2001 issue of Realms of Fantasy..
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Holler Song by Stephen Geez
Winter in a Tennessee Holler..
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Holmes Returns Episode 1 by Marie Wadsworth
Sherlock Holmes' fan fiction Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, movies featuring Robert Downing Jr. and the TV show "Elementary"...
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HOLY WEEK: The Rest of the Story by Adele Gill
There isn’t anyone who does not sin in word and deed at times—possibly even daily for many of us! saved.” In the eyes of God, the fact that we all sin is not big news. Humanness is our journey, and our destined plight. But what we do about our sins, our humanness gone awry, is what matters...
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Home : Seagate, N.Y. by Mark Lichterman
“…The Statue of Liberty! Oh, my God, Mitchell, she’s beautiful! I can’t believe it!” Her head turning to the right, continuing to look as they drove on. “Why didn’t you tell me you were going to drive all night? You should have woken me! At least I could have kept you company.” Quiet a moment, th..
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Home Again 10: Rhea by Mark Lichterman
“Yeah, that’s true!” he said sorrowfully, “I got this, uh, rare, tropical disease, and if I don’t get my daily dose of boobie touching I just go to pieces.” “Oh,” she crooned sadly, “you poor thing!” Reaching overhead, flicking the switch to the dome light, turning it on, “Can I watch?” b..
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Home Again 11: Beach by Mark Lichterman
Spending the years of her life with none but the love of her father, suddenly having not only the love of Mitchell, but of his family, too, all but overwhelming her, opening her eyes, looking at him, “Really?” “Yeah, really!” Leaning downward, he kissed her nose. “But Star of David or not, m..
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