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“Hello?”
The Submission
Category: Short Stories
The Initial Legend of the Great Founder
About the Great Founder. The story supports itself. There is no one description.
Smiley’s Victory
294 words. Trying not to kill a horse.
The Wedding
A transgendered teenager, engages in a fantasy with her girlfriend to express her love for her and to avoid the awful reality of being raped.
Not Like Us
This story takes place in London. Franc, a London-living Albanian, gets a call from his close mate Zen who asks for help to collect a debt.
A Beautiful Life, I Promise
The main characters brother tragically dies. She has now given up on everything and will not even speak.
Blind
A man walking home in the rain takes cover in what he thinks is an Empty Storefront, but it is the storefront for an elderly blind man’s barbershop.
Boots
A short reflection on education, privilege, homelessness, hope, and, of course, five-hundred dollar, leather boots.
And I haven’t had a thing to eat all day
Love and Death – turnabout IS fair play.
Fervent Orison
“Fervent Orison” explores very briefly the classic moment in which ‘the young man with the destiny’ must pull away from the mundane.
Texas Football
A high school football game in Texas in 1981. A time and place as dead and gone as the glories of Rome.
The Beard
The narrator meets a poor pensioner in the streets of Tirana, Albania. He tells him about his son, made unemployable ‘because of his long beard’
The Concrete Guy
Chuck just wants to get to the store for a coffee and a roll. When someone snakes his spot, he becomes unglued.
And Then, The Gods Came
A man trapped in a forest realizes that it may not be what he thinks it is. In fact, it may not be a forest at all.
Foraging
A 900 word Flash Fiction story of a boy who lives in the projects and finds something and someone that will most likely change his life.
Parting Company
An older man reminisces on the morning his 40-year-old hardware store is to be stripped of its last merchandise.