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25 Most Recent Literary Fiction Short Stories

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One-Winged Turkey Dinner by Sohan Koonar
A story when one man discovers that his Thanksgiving dinner is just as unique and special as his family. ..
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OnThe Horns Of A Dilemma by Art Rosch
Robert goes to a new kind of party and gets trapped in his own hallucination...
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Opal Moon by Peter Cooper
A retiring jeweler remembers the moment that decided his career...
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Opening to Fill My Eyes by Terry Robertson
I have included the entire opening section of "Fill My Eyes". Only a partial view has been available until now. Hope you enjoy it. Let me know!..
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Ordinary Life by Peter Cooper
There is no short cut to love, especially when your parents try to help...
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Orgasmic Flight to Fiji (Chapter 1) by Rebecca Lerwill
I'm finally doing it... This little story has been on my desktop for quite some time. Finally I mustered the courage to post it. Well, not in it's entirety, because there is more... enjoy and keep your eyes peeled for the continuance of this little teaser.....
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Orgasmic Flight to Fiji (Chapter 2) by Rebecca Lerwill
You asked for it, so here is more. Tomorrow I'll post chapter 3...........
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Orgasmic Flight to Fiji (Chapter 4 - Conclusion) by Rebecca Lerwill
As we head into the weekend I present to you the fourth and final chapter of my very first erotica. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did composing it...
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Orgasmic Flight to Fiji (Chapter3) by Rebecca Lerwill
... and here we continue with Chapter 3. The conclusion of this naughty little tale will be posted tomorrow. Credits: I wrote Chapter 3 following a creative nudge from fellow 'denner' Felix Perry...
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Orlando by Barbara Worton
What choice would you make given a sudden opportunity to take your life in a new direction?..
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Out of Touch Bubbles by Odin odin@aflx.com
The pursuit of success sometimes convinces us to dodge choices, knowing they are causal in nature, creating consequences that become yet further choices. Eventually, some make a decision. A flash fiction reality. (Image by Taylor Marie McCormick) ..
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Outlook on Life by R. Steven Reynolds
This is a rewrite of the story previously titled "The Ride". I hope the rewrite is more powerful. It is still up for a little bit to let you compare. ..
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Pacing Love's Journey by Odin odin@aflx.com
Having started this story years ago, it felt like the right time to give it room to just be. (Image by Odin AI) ..
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Painting Walls by Peggy Duffy
Today my two daughters and I are painting the kitchen. I roll the walls and ceiling; they do the brushwork--the windows and floor moldings and all the corners where the roller won't reach. Painting is soothing. ..
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Paper or Plastic by Byron Edgington
A love story for these artificial times..
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Pappy Yokum's Kickapoo Joy Juice by Mark Lichterman
In his best American Indian Brave voice Mitchell told his wife: “Me go catch’em dinner!” However, never a fish eater, Marsha had answered – in her best Jewish American wife’s voice – “I ain’t eating nothing you catch, unless it’s a cow!” ..
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Paradise de Nova by Odin odin@aflx.com
In New York, I’ve often passed what appears at a distance to be nothing but the downtrodden. On closer examination, I frequently found many wearing a smile on their face. Such occasion reminded me that regardless of age or economic status, imagination can help keep a person secure and comfortable,..
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Passion's Arrival by Odin odin@aflx.com
Passion knows many forms. The evolution of its essence is often met with disappointment. Then again, lessons learned and remembered have never been considered the easy way, but always the right way.. (Image by Ruth Sewell)..
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Pastor Aluta by Andrew Nyongesa
It is a chapter in the Bottomline about a rogue pastor...
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Patience Waning by Odin odin@aflx.com
With global unrest accelerating with sabre rattling and empty dialog exchanges, one is left wondering not the “if” but the “when.” One can only wonder what it must be like for the simple innocents in villages from Africa to the Middle East to exercise patience and hope to quell their fear. (I cho..
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Pats Silence by Paul Mc Cann
Silence occupies the place where teardrops cannot fall .Cry for those who suffer there . ..
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Paul and Helene and Narcissus by David Arthur Walters
It's a Threesome ..
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Paul Bowman's Last Stand by David Arthur Walters
The author's suicide essay may be his very best..
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Paul's Black Ford by David Arthur Walters
Paul didn't know about the law against hit-and-run nor that ignorance is no excuse..
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Paul's Brass Balls by David Arthur Walters
Just what a best-selling author needs...
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Payback Time' for Mean Dean by Jerry Engler
This is a story born of a hope that all the mean guys get what's coming to them without necessarily killing them...
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Peaches and Rosenberg by Mark Lichterman
The loose, unbuttoned sleeve having worked its way to his elbow, looking at the motioning arm, beneath the white hair there he saw the faded blue numbers of a German concentration camp and though he did not like Rosenberg, Mitchell gained a respect for the man that he did not have moments ago...
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People flocked to see rodeo dog by Jerry Engler
Genetics and human-animal roles are given new twists with romantic humor...
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Perilous Query by D. Kenneth Ross
An angry older writer resorts to deception to try and get published. His guilt takes the enjoyment out of his temporary success...
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Perpetuity's Undeniability by Odin odin@aflx.com
The art of having a quiet questioning dialog with yourself is often accompanied by an ethereal escort...
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Pieces by Mike Hedrick
Pieces of a young man lost and found..
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Pigeon Ledge Wake-up by Odin odin@aflx.com
Recalling how life was for the aspiring artist in the 50’s compared to today gave me pause to appreciate the difference. Here’s a bit of flash fiction/fact for those who lived in NY during that era. There’s bound to be some nostalgia reawakened...
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Pillowcase by Sherry Bryan
Fay's broken heart is held together by the small, albeit stained, piece of him she keeps...
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Pittsburgh (1983) by Guy Hogan
Mitchell's / Logan's Pub / Chief's Cafe / The Luna / Pather Hollow Inn / Union Grille / Peter's Pub / Joe Mama's / Fuel & Fuddle / Mad Mex / Primanti Brothers / Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland Pittsburgh / Hemingway's Cafe / Upstage..
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Pittsburgh Snow by Guy Hogan
This is a new story written after the publication of CTPS...
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Pity the Wounded Animal by B.R. Jones
When Jerrilyn goes into the forest... ..
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Plastic Jesus by Borne Wilder
I go hard in the cake!..
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Poetic Coup Part I by HB Clayton
Poetic Coup Part I (Inspired by Espada's Republic of Poetry)..
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Poetic Coup Part II by HB Clayton
Poetic Coup Part II The Enlistment..
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Poison by Susannah Carlson
POISON The helicopters came in early spring, raining malathion in yellow clouds. They came to poison the med-flies who had hidden in the backs of fruit trucks to cross the border into California from Mexico. They came to poison the med-flies, but they poisoned everything. That spring was the ..
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Poor Daddy by Randall Barfield
Arriving at the Ritchie family plot, Carl saw the freshly-dug hole and broke into tears...
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Poor Hemingway by Jerry Engler
Jerry Engler was challenged to write a pun using certain words, so he chose poor Ernest Hemingway's book, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, to come up with this questionable masterpiece...
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Poor Man's Strawberry by Kim McDougall
Nicolette has learned all the lessons her mother, taught. Some of them too well. Available as a free pdf download from Twisted Tongue Magazine, or in print. ..
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Possession by Robert Amoroso
I’m currently working on my third novel, entitled Possession. It’s an adult erotic and dramatic tale of two writers who meet on a message board, and fall in love. However there obsession for one another leads to an unsolved 30 year old murder, it’s a tale of a mirrored past, and of a dead girl and a..
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Pot Man by Mark Lichterman
Having to walk sideways, the width of the sample cases barely ‘scraping by’, he followed her into a hot, cluttered kitchen that had the near nauseating, commingled odors of boiled cabbage, rancid oil, fried fish and burnt meat. ..
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Powerful Women by Storyteller Danny Turner
A brief encounter between two strangers yields an lighthearted experience that will be a fond memory for both ..
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Presenting: Open MIC Night by David Grant
Sometimes the laughs are all about the presentation...
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Pretty and Nowhere to Go by Paul Cuenco
pages 205-06, an excerpt of the novel..
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Pretty and Nowhere to Go - pgs. 30-31 by Paul Cuenco
Excerpt from the novel...
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Professor Somersault knows it all. by Peter Oszmann
Satire about experts, who know it all… ..
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