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25 Most Recent Mainstream Short Stories

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War of the Wills by David Schwinghammer
A social studies teacher's disciple problem leads to violence. (Based on a true story)..
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View Photo of We Believe in the Freedom to Read & It's a Very Fine Line... Read excerpt from We Believe in the Freedom to Read & It's a Very Fine Line... We Believe in the Freedom to Read & It's a Very Fine Line... by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette
Originally posted by Jill Christine Carpenter Note: There are actually two articles written by Jill Christine Carpenter in this posting.....
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We Gather Our Roses by Mary Fallon Fleming
An older woman decides to marry again, but the groom is non the wiser...
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We Should Shit Together More Often by Thomas Archer
This a chapter from my novel Burnt Popcorn And Cheap Perfume. The focus in this chapter deals with the horror the main character experiences when using the workplace restroom...
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Wedding Day by Mark Lichterman
Swallowing, closing her eyes a moment, instinctively, Oh, God! moving out of fear itself, Marsha stepped out from under the trellis and began the, Oh, God! long journey to the huppa… And as she did her knees began to wobble and she became faint. ( A "Becoming" Excerpt)..
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Wedding Days by Mark Lichterman
Within forty minutes of starting, the rehearsal was finished. The entire wedding party taken to dinner at a nearby restaurant by the parents of the groom, Mitchell looked for a sign of hostility or animosity between Marsha and his mother, but at the moment, happily, there did not appear to..
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Wedding Days 2 by Mark Lichterman
Looking at her, Marsha’s expression and tone of voice causing his heart to lurch, because for a second he, unreasonably—especially since she’d just said, ‘we’re getting married tonight’—thought she was going to tell him that she didn’t want to marry him. “What’s wrong?” “Mitchell, I’ve… I..
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Wedding Night: Gas by Mark Lichterman
Mitchell wanted them to leave immediately, if not sooner, because, his stomach bloated, he had been fighting an army of gas bubbles that, advancing through his intestinal tract, were trying, oh, yeah, to find escape through his rectum and now, squirming, thinking the profound thought, Where do fa..
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Welcome Aboard by Mark Lichterman
Ignoring him, taking the papers, “Christ, Mac,” crossing the room, “just look at what they sent me for a replacement!” Slapping the papers on the Yeoman’s desk, Ewing pointed a stiffened finger to something on the top of the first sheet of paper. "Welcome Aboard" is an excerpt from my publi..
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West Texas Heat by Laura Berry
Becca has a problem that goes much deeper than the heat of a West Texas night. A decision must be made, but will it be the right one?..
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What About My Beliefs? by Michael LeFevre
A man has his tolerance tested when local Muslims set up a Sharia Zone in his neighbourhood. Warning: Any attempt to use this story to promote bigotry will not be tolerated. ..
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What's Mine Is Yours by Mark Lichterman
Thinking: Of their three separations, in the mind of Marsha Lipensky, the first was the only—though Marsha would never admit this to her husband or anyone else—the first separation was the only of the three that she took full responsibility for...
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What's Up Your Kilt? by E Phillips
Just the bare facts.....
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What’ch’ma’call’it: 5of 5 by Mark Lichterman
Careful!! Gutteral language and coarse sexual scene...
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When Wealth, Facts, and Inheritances Collide by E Phillips
Truth takes a backseat...
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Where is the Justice by c lea harris
Justice is suppose to be a part of the system for all of us, then why is it that for some it does not apply to. ..
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Where There's A Will by Mark Lichterman
A surrealistic sensation brought about by the ‘unreality’ of what they had done… Feeling a part of a world different from ‘any’ world they’d occupied before.. Sitting apart on opposite sides of the seat, Mitchel Lipensky and Marsha ‘Lipensky’..
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Where's Mitchell by Mark Lichterman
Going to the bed, taking her hand. “Marsha, I’ve know you all your life… Hell, I knew you ‘before’ you were born and I’m ‘not’ going to let anything happen to you! But I’ve gotto get hold of a surgeon and we don’t have time to talk now.” Handing her the phone, “Find your husband. Don’t worry, every ..
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While Joe the Plumber Was Sleeping by David Arthur Walters
All the money in the world disappeared!..
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White Castle: Careful R Rated by Mark Lichterman
Drawn to his unpretentious good looks and innocence, Gina knew that he was wholly inexperienced with girls because Frank had told her so. But even so she found it hard to believe that any boy that looked as good as Mitchell— even at his age of sixteen, so she thought— ..
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Who Are We? by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A woman with cerebral palsy shares her story. Image (c) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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Who Goes/ The War Effort by Mark Lichterman
The Grand Manufacturing Company, the Lipensky business, named “Grand” for Grand Avenue where it was located rather than its grand size, which it wasn’t, went out of business because it produced a “non‑essential” product using “essential” material. A "Becoming Excerpt"..
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Who's Joining Unions Today? Hint: It's Not the White Guys by Chris Belec-Joanet-Joannette
"How are unions attracting … new members?" A recent report from the Berger-Marks Foundation spotlighted the results of a summit involving different generations of women union activists, and the conclusions of the young participants are particularly striking. .. "The values expressed by these yo..
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Why Sounds are Important by Harold Hester
Sounds, noises are wonderious and meaningful but they also do so much more...
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Read excerpt from Wilma's Goodbye, 1949 Wilma's Goodbye, 1949 by Paxton Riddle
Wilma visits the Quapaw Agency House the last day before it is to be razed. It is the last tangible remnant of the vague memories of her Modoc mother...
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Read excerpt from Wilma's Goodbye, 1949 Wilma's Goodbye, 1949 by Paxton Riddle
Wilma returns for the last time to the Quawpaw Agency House, where her Modoc mother often stood in line with her ration card. Now it is to be razed, the last palpable remnant of her mother's memory...
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Wind Sparked Memories by Rodney Bohen
Quite personal recollection often renders the parchment wet, from the fallen tears of creation. So stands this piece in time......
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Winter Wonderland by Ursela Wetjen
A dark story for a dark morning!..
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Winter: Snow, 1 of 3 by Mark Lichterman
Holding his mouth an inch from the frozen glass, feeling the radiating cold, he exhaled his warm breath onto the opaque surface. A dime‑sized spot melted; a nickel, a quarter, a half‑dollar. He looked through the clear, transparent circle and took a sharp intake of breath. “Snow!” The wi..
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Wisconsin Villas by Mark Lichterman
Rolling the window up, driving on a moment and stopping at the juncture of a driveway... “That’s ours,” pointing through Marsha’s window to the unit on the left side of the building at the far end of the court..
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Wolf Man&Public Health by Mark Lichterman
Marsha had been sitting on the edge of the examination table with her legs dangling for ten minutes waiting for him and, Oh, ‘God’, she thought when the drape finally parted, he’s even got acne! Tightening her knees. Glancing down to be sure the sheet was hanging below her bare feet. “Hi!”..
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Woodstock 2 by Mark Lichterman
Well, yeah. We had two ‘flats’ that slowed us up a bit, and we stopped at … oh, about nine that night and slept on the side of the road in the Ford for a couple of hours, getting onto the Bethel outskirts at about seven on the eleventh.”..
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Woodstock 1 by Mark Lichterman
“Oh, Baby...” laughing, her eyes rolling upward “... ‘Woodstock’! Marcie, Clyde and me were at Woodstock in ‘sixty-nine! And you want to know if I’d ‘ever’ smoked pot?”..
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Woodstock 10: Into the Crowd by Mark Lichterman
It was indescribable, all those thousands of people thinking as they each thought. Their independence of belief. Their freedom of thought without criticism from the ‘establishment’. All feeling that the guy or gal standing or sitting alongside was a brother or sister, and the love....
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Woodstock 11:Sharon & Franklin by Mark Lichterman
Feeling dizzy. Two or three quick draws on the joints offered her by people in passing, and now two from this old skankey make believe hippy — the wetness from his lips that had clung to the joint he had handed her still sensed upon her lips, causing an additional up-bound twitch within her stomach..
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Woodstock 12 - White Lake by Mark Lichterman
“Well, yeah. First off, When I saw you, I knew I’d like you, and when you went into the crowd yesterday and your husband went in another direction, I knew that all that floating THC would get to you, and then, when we were forced to stand so close. Well.”..
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Woodstock 13-Franklins Story by Mark Lichterman
Apparently the stoppage of rain singling ‘It’s now time to roll and light a joint’, as throughout the crowded shoreline and towards the upper area where she and Franklin had dropped the blanket, THC laden grey smoke spirited upward from the hundred or so of those now taking advantage of White Lakes,..
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Woodstock 14-Lake In The Woods (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
The heavy rainfall that had ended about a half hour earlier by now had left body sticking humidity and a temperature of ninety-two degrees along with swimming clouds of gnats and mosquitoes. ..
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Woodstock 15- Minutes (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
“I know. But living with Margery I’ve never had to show any restraint. Because even if I don’t want to, she ‘always’ wants to, and is always in a hurry to finish the first time, so she can do it again because she says she comes even better the second time. So, yeah, maybe that is my problem.” Frankl..
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Woodstock 16: Andy Gump by Mark Lichterman
“It was you, remember, Clyde, that said whatever happens in Woodstock stays in Woodstock!” Adding sarcastically. “You did mean that applies to me, too, huh!”..
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Woodstock 17: Festival by Mark Lichterman
Hundreds clumps of sodden toilet paper clinging to and entwined about bushes and tree limbs reminiscent of the deceive teen-age prank of throwing rolls of toilet paper over residential tree limbs...
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Woodstock 18: MJ & LSD & Sex (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
The stranger violently jerked from Sharon’s back and from between her thighs and from within her vagina — Forcefully flung to the soggy ground, where whomever he was, screaming to the sky, “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound...” involuntarily ejaculated into the night...
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Woodstock 19: Day Two by Mark Lichterman
Rubbing at her wrist, then removing the waterproof watch; circling her wrist the width of the watch band was a solid red circle of a thousand itching chigger bites. ..
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Woodstock 20: A Mj Hit With Janis by Mark Lichterman
“I’m thirty-five and you’re seventeen and the ‘age of consent’ in New York is nineteen. You know I could be arrested and sent to prison for doing what I did with an underage kid.”..
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Woodstock 21: Repercussions by Mark Lichterman
Marsha still speaking of Sharon’s Woodstock saga that had been told to her in the utmost, old woman to old woman confidence – because there was so much that ‘if sober’, Sharon would never have revealed...
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Woodstock 3 by Mark Lichterman
“As Clyde and me began across the southern end of the field to the parking lot, the rain starting again, the field, very quickly becoming a sea of mud...
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Woodstock 4 by Mark Lichterman
Sharon Murphy, at age seventy-seven is still one of those women that when seen by most strangers, ‘primarily men’, very often their first impression hosts the thought: ‘Can’t even imagine how beautiful this lady had to be when younger!’..
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Woodstock 5: Lust. Caution, R Rated by Mark Lichterman
The crush of humanity. Arms in the air waving madly. Upper bodies gyrating as rocking and rolling along with the pounding of bongos, drums and the near naked — with the sixties ‘peace’ emblem painted onto her nude belly — lady on the stage..
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Woodstock 6: Innocence (Caution, R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
The production company hired a crew, but how do you handle even thirty-five thousand people, let alone a half million? So they got hold of some of the biggest guys there, and offered each a couple hundred bucks to do security till it ended.”..
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Woodstock 7: Mother and Son (R Rated) by Mark Lichterman
However — looking skyward while pantomiming the sign of the cross across his narrow chest, Lyle’s son immediately changed his mind when presented the two Polaroid pictures of his wasted, naked father, dated 1/1/54..
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