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25 Most Recent Literary Fiction Short Stories

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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 56 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Dr Pressman reveals an unusual display of his ability to be personal with Mathews and Charles without allowing his objectivity to be threatened...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 58 by Odin odin@aflx.com
My, my. Is there an answer brewing?..
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 59 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Charles and Julian find more than just increasing camaraderie. After 6 weeks at Milton, Charles's nightly dreams continue to haunt him and he shares the frustration with Julian in not being able to tell Mathews about them because of their isolation from each other. ..
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 6 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Charles and Mathews examine the enigmatic office in Charles' memory...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 60 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Pressman invites Dr. Farnsworth and Charlie/Charles down to the boiler room of the hospital, a most unusual, and successful place where over the years, Dr Pressman realized unique results...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 61 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Charles and Mathews are brought together in an inordinate way and Farnsworth finds their being put together by themselves both exciting and dangerous. Dr Pressman seems confident and that adds to Farnsworth's fear...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 62 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Charles and Mathews embark into a darkness and fire that finally starts to reveal the real Charles...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 63 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Charles and Mathews have more conversations, leading to some conclusions, and some very anxious questions not yet resolved...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 64 by Odin odin@aflx.com
In a passage of time, 6 months, most everything comes to a resolution... all but one haunting unanswered question...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 65 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Father Stevens and Julian embark on what Father Stevens hopes will answer the long question of what caused his memory loss...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 66 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Father Stevens and Julian experience an unexpected night of revelations at the cove, followed by a tearful goodbye with Max and Julian back at the house. But all didn't seem over as Father Stevens arrived at the airport...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter 67 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Father Randall Stevens tries to leave LA and return to where he feels he belongs, only to be intercepted at the airport by unexpected emotions...
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3 Way Mirror - Chapter5 by Odin odin@aflx.com
Charles has a disturbing call with Ms. Sobel from his bungalow...
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3. a.m. at the Cafe by Jacques Fleury
The complete first chapter from my book: "It's Always Sunrise Somewhere and Other Stories" where disparate lives intersect at a local café brimming with lust, love & longing...
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4 AM Ballet by Odin odin@aflx.com
A previously posted poem working also as a prosetry piece of flash fiction exploring the question: We all have ways to use creation for healing the ills that plague us. Why do so few seek them out? ..
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50's Soliloquy by Odin odin@aflx.com
The pandemic drove a lot of us into nostalgia as a substitute for the real thing. Now it's pretty much over, it's easy to get thirsty again...
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8 Times Lydia by Danae Wilkin
The trials and tribulations of Lydia, who can't succeed at any of her plans...
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9 Lives by Angela Nichols
I wrote this for a web-magazine; the story editor wanted a group of us to each try our hands at a Halloween style story...
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99% Reality Continues by Odin odin@aflx.com
Amidst all the defensive platitudes and posturing by politicians, there are many hidden truths of reality seldom witnessed as history continues to repeat itself. (Image by Picasso) ..
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A humanistic Sexual Fantasy by Mark Lichterman
Authors Notation: This is an excerpt from my novel: "For Better or Worse" which was posted on AuthorsDen in 2008, and due to sexual content caution in reading is suggested..
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A Labyrinthian City by Odin odin@aflx.com
For a New Yorker, there is something contagious about the energy that needs daily managing and acceptance. New York is a life unto its own, feeding off human, beast and insect alike. Once familiar and time worn, you’re apt to react like most ex pats of the city… debating the power of that strong p..
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A RELIEF by Jamal Abboud
I liked this short story...
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A Bar Mitzvah Story: From Boy to Man; PG13 rated Becoming extcerpt by Mark Lichterman
I shouldn’t have done that, he thought, God’ll punish me for doing that tonight! He did feel relaxed, though, as if the act of masturbation had drained him of apprehension and tension, which in fact, outside of his guilt, it had. Yawning again, Mitchell Lipensky closed his eyes…..
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A Bit Of Fun by Julian Isaacs
Two public school chums enjoy an elongated afternoon of drugs and delusion...
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A Brush With Reality in the Key of B-Flat Minor by B. B. Riefner
A potentially gifted musician neglects his art and pays more than the required price. ..
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A Cautionary Measure by Peggy Duffy
My fingers wander, probe, examine. Beneath my armpit alongside my left breast, I find it again. The lump is the size of a pea, moveable, pliable, floating on a layer of fat. ..
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A Child Too Near by B. B. Riefner
The thin line between reality and imagination is a very thin line, unless a life depends on it; and a starving child's life does. Ignorance is bliss, or, is it? What you don't know, won't hurt you; or will it? ..
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A collection of short stories. by Melva Henderson
Excerpt from the book...
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A Compromise by Jack Lowe
A father considers the best course of action to take, in regards to his children. (please leave all your preconceptions at the door)..
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A Cottage in Another Country - pg 36 by Paul Cuenco
Excerpt of the novel, in a Parisian hotel...
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A Cottage in Another Country - pg 89 by Paul Cuenco
Excerpt from the novel...
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A Cottage in Another Country - pgs. 130-132 by Paul Cuenco
He contemplates on leaving his family...
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A Different Shade of Blue by Linda Dousay
Revised 5/14/6..
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A Disturbing Discovery by Michael LeFevre
I'm writing a sequel to He Was Weird. In this chapter, we see that ten years after the shooting at Tye School in Ramsgate, NJ, the town hasn't learned its lesson. At least as far as Sean is concerned. ..
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A division between friends by Patrick McCormick
Friendship comes full circle after tragedy...
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A Donegal Encounter by Daniel Doyle
West Donegal in all its greatness - a nice scene in a rural pub. ..
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A Drink Now and Then by Randall Barfield
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A Faire Daye by Cristina Van Dyck
A day in the life of a renaissance faire performer...
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A Family Dinner by Marcia Miller-Twiford
Sometimes the best of intentions turn out wrong...
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A Fine Pickle by Ev McTaggart
It's a windy night and Leila's brother has not come home..
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A Fish Tale by Alan Strunk
Sometimes sea critters need the helping hands of humans. Charlie Hagglund sails to the rescue. ..
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A Fiver Yearning by Odin odin@aflx.com
Don’t know where I heard it, but the line of wisdom has stayed with me. Thought I’d take a crack as some storytelling with it in mind. Couldn’t resist some personification as well. “A wealthy person is one who owns what cannot be bought. Money Knows Not Wealth”. Image by Alamy) ..
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A Flight of Fancy by Laurel-Rain Snow
A young woman, depressed by the chaos of her own life, hopes that a business trip will provide perspective...And a bit of distraction...
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A Flower Girl Sister Surprise by Jerry Engler
This is a story that studies what people might do for each other outside the realm of usual expectation. It is among stories that I wrote, and then rejected until they could be rewritten. Feel free to tell me if you think it should have stayed rejected...
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A friend like God commands by Leopoldo Barge Álvarez
Electric Magic and Love...
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A Future Face by Mark Lichterman
Coming from the air-cooled lobby, My, God, he thought as the heat hit him, it’s got to be a million out here today! Standing in the miniscule shad in the lee of the building, loosening his tie and removing his seersucker jacket, he draped it over the sample case..
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A Gentle Man by Odin odin@aflx.com
One who has lived amongst many fictitious lives as well as the real ones comes away with choices that are perhaps more than he deserves. But… when such choices lead to happiness that is not at the expence of anyone else, well, that’s special. I knew of such a man...
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A Good And Not So Good Night (10) by Gene Williamson
Installment 10 in the Captain Jack series...
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A Good Dentist by Anne Carter
Vince Bagwell's life is on the skids. With everything going South, what's left to live for? ..
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A Home for Shelly, Cole, Josie, Micky and Robbie by Randolph Camp
A brief excerpt and quotation from contemporary author Randolph Randy Camp's prize-winning story 'Wet Matches'...
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Popular Literary Fiction Stories
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4. A Labyrinthian City
5. Gratitude
6. Vulnerable Captivity
7. The Kite That Would Not Bow
8. Pacing Love's Journey
9. Little Crow
10. A Sticky Conversation
11. Time
12. Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)
13. IT 'Round His Neck
14. Blazing Now and Then
15. Love Knows No Short Cuts
16. Bella's Quest for Knowledge Across Fiv
17. Diary of a First Year Kindergarten Tea
18. The Death Of Josiah Johnson/ 2nd insta
19. The Death Of Josiah Johnson
20. Spirit-Earth's Relief Map

 

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