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25 Most Recent Mainstream Short Stories

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B.O.W.14: Michigan 1944 by Mark Lichterman
Later, consciously, Roger had tried to block the scene from his mind, but subconsciously couldn’t and after a nocturnal emission with his mother as, literally, “the girl of his dreams”—and a few emissions that were not nocturnal—which caused him a great amount of guilt that he juxtaposed as anger at..
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B.O.W.15:Terrified! by Mark Lichterman
Five months from her eighth birthday, Marsha Goldman was tall for her age; tall and thin. Showing little muscle tone, Marsha’s calves, thighs, buttocks and stomach were straight, starting and ending with only the slightest protuberance. Marsha had short­-cut, tightly curled black hair and dark ­brow..
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B.O.W.16:Boobies’n’Bums by Mark Lichterman
Careful, some explicit language here. _______________________________________ Hoisting the sea bag onto his shoulder, feeling—rather than the happiness he thought he would feel—hollow and depressed, turning to the stern, saluting the flag, nodding at the O.D., Mitchell Lipensky walked down ..
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B.O.W.38: Michigan Avenue by Mark Lichterman
“Holy shit!” Walking south on Michigan Avenue, Mitchell Lipensky’s body was bent so far forward that were the wind to suddenly stop blowing he would surely fall flat on his face. ..
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B.O.W.39:1st piece'a ass by Mark Lichterman
For the first time on his life, Mitchell Lipensky felt the marvellously warm, wonderfully soft flesh of a girl’s buttock, and with this realization the phenomena that affects the male of the species—while in this position—took place and, leaving him a blathering idiot, the blood drained from the cel..
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B.O.W.53: The Chasm by Mark Lichterman
Remembering the maternal indifference shown to her for her entire life. Wondering, Why now? Why does mother want me around now, with my own child yet? To make up for the past? To show the world what a good mother she really is?..
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B.O.W.57:Vividly Sexual 3 by Mark Lichterman
Her fingers instantly finding and tightening about the hard, cylindrical shape. Both sure they would never again be as this with the other, at this time each touch was as though it were the first touch. The excitement of now as it was then, when each touch truly was the first touch. b..
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B.O.W.59: New Home by Mark Lichterman
Parking directly in front of a small, newly remodelled two story, two apartment building, going to the entry they heard the crying of a baby. Glancing at Marsha, he rang the bell… “Hi! If it’s not too late,” he said when the door was opened, “we’re here about the rental you advertised.” Holding his ..
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B.O.W.64:Defending Marsha by Mark Lichterman
Jealous of each actual, or imagined second she thought Marsha, Mitchell and especially her grandson spent with Rhea, slamming the handle of the single control faucet down, turning from the sink, glaring at Marsha, “Don’t give me any of your bull­shit! I know that…” hesitating, knowing she shouldn’t,..
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B.O.W.71: Lippy by Mark Lichterman
Stuffing “it” between his thighs, with his calves at outer angles Mitchell hopped as he pulled the cut offs over one foot than the other, then tried to pull them up and over his buttocks, and… Just as his baby brother came into the room. “Uh, hi, Mortie.” he succeeded. ..
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B.O.W.72: Invisible Woman by Mark Lichterman
“Nu, Mitchell? So if you know where your Marsha is, why don’t you go get her and your son?” “Pa, Marsha left me for no god­damned reason! So I got drunk one time! So we argue! So everyone has arguments and their wives don’t pack up all their stuff and leave and not let their husbands know ..
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B.O.W.76: Vividly Sexual 4 by Mark Lichterman
Note: Authors Den, for some unknown reason -- though it's okay to use in an article -- Authors Den will not allow the word clitoris within the body of a story, so they change the word to "oris." All the guttural derivatives for male and female genitalia and intercourse are okay, but someone does no..
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B.O.W.9: Political Pull by Mark Lichterman
Careful, a bit of language and a bit of sex, of sorts, here. ______________________________________ Rhea was almost 45, and the image her mirror reflected was no longer that of the young woman she’d been. What Rhea saw in the mirror then—what she found hard to accept—was the image ..
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B.O.W80: Laying Blame by Mark Lichterman
Knowing Mitchell, Marsha knew that once they touched, once he so much as touched her they would make love and the past would become the past and their lives, good or bad, For Better or Worse, would go forward. ..
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B.O.W93: Homosexual XX by Mark Lichterman
Careful here for language and a sexual situation!!! Although leaning more towards the degradation part of his sexual deviation, in truth, what Irving Glassman had in mind was something altogether different from what Rhea Goldman had in mind, or could even imagine...
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Baggage by Byron Edgington
The annoying TSA woman..
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Baylor 2/ American Children by Mark Lichterman
Two hundred and fifty-two boys lay in warm, clean beds. Eyes closed or looking at the dimly iridescent ceiling, or through the window at the slivered, silver moon...
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Beating All the Odds by Adele Gill
When you believe that your strength comes from Jesus, and that He is with you each day through all that comes along, your life is never the same again.....
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Beautiful Day For Dying by Jerelyn Craden
A piece from a play in progress...
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BECOMING 2: Winter, 1940: by Mark Lichterman
“Hi, Mitchie!” Nick yelled from the high seat of the wagon. “Whoa, Erma!” Thick plumes of vapor streaming from her wide nostrils, the horse stopped on command, lifted her tail, and with a “fart” that he could hear, though Mitchell was about fifteen yards away, Erma deposited a huge plop of steaming ..
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BECOMING 23: 1946 by Mark Lichterman
When in the presence of an unknown girl, or girls, he’d taught himself, even at that age, to hide his shyness by appearing to be aloof, and to those that did not know him, this sham, combined with his good looks, became the image of conceit. But Mitchell’s vanity was truly focused inward. ..
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BECOMING 1: Winter, 1940 by Mark Lichterman
“No!” Awakened with a start, realizing where he was. I’m in bed! he thought. I almost made siss in bed! And though he did not want to leave the warmth, he knew, Gotta go, that if he didn’t get up then, right then, he’d have an accident, and Mitchell knew he was too big and too old to have an acciden..
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BECOMING 10: Boy Talk by Mark Lichterman
“Like Sal, when I saw him naked…” He didn’t quite know how to ask the question. “When I see some’a you guys in the shower, uh,” he didn’t want to hurt Frank’s feelings, but it had been on his mind and so long as they were talking about it, “how’s come you got such ugly pissers?” he asked. ..
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BECOMING 109: Marsha by Mark Lichterman
Oddly, although this girl was the absolute opposite of the stocky, big-busted, Coca-Cola, All-American, girl next door type of girl that he’d always been attracted to, for some incomprehensible reason, She’s beautiful! he thought, and for the first time since…? "Becoming" can now also be pu..
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BECOMING 11: Boy Talk 2 by Mark Lichterman
“You stupid, dumb, wop fart! How do’ya think they pee? An’ if the don’t got nothin’ there,” he began to giggle, “then what keeps their tuckas on?” The giggle erupted into infectious, high-pitched laughter, which broke the solemn atmosphere in the bus. ..
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BECOMING 110: Whore by Mark Lichterman
He looked for Marsha, but by then she was nowhere to be seen… And being a guy, and being with guys, Mitchell Lipensky, very stupidly, allowed himself to be led away, and astray. Becoming can now be purchased as a kindle Ebook @ $4.95 ..
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BECOMING 12: The Teacher by Mark Lichterman
A spinster, with the exception of one brief, all but hands-off relationship with a man when she was 22, she had never been intimate with a man. Of course she knew her body, or the basic workings of her body, but had only the slightest idea of what a man’s “private part” looked like or, truly, how it..
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BECOMING 16: Gooey Stuff by Mark Lichterman
Careful, masturbation scene here. He looked at it, and it looked at him, and Mitchell Lipensky’s auxiliary brain, his newly developed brain, the brain between his thighs said, Go on! Do it! It ain’t gonna hurt nothin’ if you do it! Well, he rationalized, maybe that gooey stuff was just a on..
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BECOMING 165: Anxious by Mark Lichterman
Since that night in October, when Rhea had announced herself at exactly the wrong or—depending on how whom-ever was looking at it looked at it—right moment, Marsha had desperately wanted to complete the act because—as Mitchell viewed sex as a physical act—Marsha, being a woman, assumed that sex, whe..
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BECOMING 17: Nursing Lady by Mark Lichterman
Having no idea that the blanket covering her chest had slipped revealing her breast, nor that she was being watched by the two boys across the aisle, lost in a daydream, her forehead resting on the vibrating window, the lady gazed absently at the passing scenery. ..
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BECOMING 171: Oysters by Mark Lichterman
"They’re supposed to make guys, you know, virile. Like if you’re not horny, oysters are supposed to make you horny." Kissing her again, this time feeling her tongue on his lips. “You know, put lead in your pencil." Becoming can now be purchased as a kindle Ebook @ $4.95..
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BECOMING 178: Climax by Mark Lichterman
…And the feel of Marsha’s breast within his hand caused the gauze-like veil of his subconscious to lift for a moment, then return to the dream of Marsha: Now also a Kindle Ebook @ $4.95 ..
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BECOMING 18: Revelations by Mark Lichterman
Careful, a bit of coarse language here. Mitchell did not want to talk too much about the… “climatic sensation,” because if he went into too much detail Norman might have asked, “How come you know so much?” And, even though he’d asked Norman if he did it, Mitchell wasn’t quite ready to admit..
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BECOMING 19:Facts of Life by Mark Lichterman
Looking closely at his son, satisfied that the boy was taking his lecture seriously, going on with what he considered the most difficult part, “When the male has an erection… a not having-to-urinate erection, he’ll—if the female lets him—the male will put his erection, his penis, in the female’s, uh..
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BECOMING 20:Father & Son by Mark Lichterman
Inches taller than any of his friends, looking older than his actual age, at almost five-eight he was about four inches short of his lifetime maximum height. Though near ten pounds overweight, Mitchell’s bone structure carried the weight well, giving him a robust appearance. Women, both you..
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BECOMING 21: Silence by Mark Lichterman
A loud drum roll… One brilliant light knifed through the darkness shining on the center ring where the ringmaster stood resplendent in red jacket, white jodhpurs, shining patent-leather boots and a black top hat. “Boys and girls of all ages!” His voice booming over a hundred loudspeakers, “..
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BECOMING 22: Geography & History by Mark Lichterman
Recently, using his comic books, enlarging the breasts and filling in the nipples and crotch as best as he could visualize, he had taken to tracing pictures of women onto tracing paper and had an assortment of naked women, as best as he could visualize, ranging from Wonder Woman to Archie’s girlfrie..
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BECOMING 24:Squeak-Squish! by Mark Lichterman
Glancing at Norman—who was holding his hands together as though praying for the life of his dumb, but not chicken-shit friend—doubled over holding his stomach, Mitchell rushed from the room into the hall, where he hesitated a moment considering the consequences if he got caught. But because he had t..
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BECOMING 25: Captain Midnight by Mark Lichterman
Sunlight streaming through the plate glass door reflected on its multifaceted, diamond-like, clear plastic dome. Embossed in the self-adjusting, “one size fits all” gold plated tin ring, around the dome, was a clock face with both hands straight up, at twelve o’clock. ..
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BECOMING 26: Punishment by Mark Lichterman
Okay, so he couldn’t read Hebrew, at least not enough to get through the entire Hebrew phase, but he had that covered, and surprisingly—no, it was not all that surprising when he thought about it, as a matter of fact—it was Rabbi Berkovitz’ idea… ..
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BECOMING 27: Alley Baseball by Mark Lichterman
Phyllis and Sharon’s standard baseball uniforms were blue jeans and one of their father’s old, short-sleeved, loose-fitting dress shirts open at the collar and, depending on how hot it was, an additional one or two buttons down… "Becoming" can now also be purchased as a Kindle Ebook @ $4.9..
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BECOMING 28: Freshies by Mark Lichterman
Being physical outcasts made Rosalind and Ronald the best of friends and actually, aside from their appearance, they were clever, quick-witted and—their verbal sallies toward one another often leaving whomever was within hearing holding their stomachs gasping with laughter—bitingly sarcastic to each..
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BECOMING 29: Invitatiom by Mark Lichterman
Myra was apprehensive about this trip, and rightfully so. In her eyes Mitchell was an innocent boy and, to her knowledge, had never faced true anti-Semitism. Oh, yes, she thought, there’d been that anti-Semite dictator at Baylor, but that was so subtle he probably never really felt it...
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BECOMING 3: Winter, 1940 by Mark Lichterman
Mitchell opened the bag, took the silver‑plated, fifty-shot cap pistol, holster and belt out and tried to strap the belt around his waist, but due to the bulk of his clothing was barely able to fasten the belt on its last hole. “Okay, you…” looking about to see if there were any adults within ..
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BECOMING 31: Pizza&Chianti by Mark Lichterman
Looking at his plate in absolute awe, his mouth, literally watering, “Frankie,” Mitchell asked softly, “what is this?” “Pizza. An’ be careful ’cause it’s hot.” “Pizza?” Gazing at the chunks of Italian sausage, tomato, onion and green pepper, “Kind’a looks like a pancake that so..
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BECOMING 32: The Girls by Mark Lichterman
Tall, almost as tall as Mitchell and, Olive Oyl, reed thin. She looks like Olive Oyl! Instantly bringing the picture of Olive Oyl from the Popeye comic strip to mind. Wearing the same blouse, skirt and shoes that Lisa wore, obviously a uniform from some parochial school, whereupon Lisa’s neck hung a..
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BECOMING 33: Porky Pig by Mark Lichterman
Thinking, She thinks she’s hot! The embarrassment of an ejaculatory stain on his light colored Levi’s being something he did not want, knowing that he must break away, or else, closing his eyes tightly, biting his lower lip in concentration, Don’t come! Don’t come! Do not come… The wave passed. Than..
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BECOMING 34: Tongue! by Mark Lichterman
Holding her waist a moment, his hands found their way through the back of her skirt and beneath the elastic band of her high-waisted—no doubt Immaculate Heart-issue—cotton underpants, where, Oh, God, he thought, holding a warm, naked buttock in each hand. So smooth! ..
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BECOMING 36: Tonight by Mark Lichterman
Still able to taste bitter bile and secondhand wine, his stomach queasy, his throat hurting from the force of vomiting, looking at Gina, Do I even want to be alone with her again? he wondered. But also, he had a dull, pleasant sensation in his testicles that reminded him, even feeling as bad as he f..
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BECOMING 37:Violent Rage by Mark Lichterman
“Well, Mom…” Thinking a moment: I almost got killed by two anti-Semitic, Italian hoods, then met a girl with a dirty neck’n’ears’n’green teeth, an’ got stinkin’ drunk on homemade Dago Red, an’ told her’n’her girlfriend’n’Frankie how Jews get their dicks wacked off, then her’n’me went into a bedroom ..
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