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I write short-short stories also known as flash fiction. Read this to get away for a minute.

Recent Posts Tagged With 'surreal'

• Pink Dot

  Posted on Tuesday March 11th, 2008 at 13:23 in surreal, weird

  This hotel room, with its patterned bedspread and carpet, its plastic wrapped cups and soap, its King size bed that will sleep one, is exactly like all the others except for the pink dot on the door. ...

• Buried Alive

  Posted on Tuesday January 22nd, 2008 at 21:52 in death, surreal, weird

  It’s dark and smells of dirt. Me, the juicy and fat earthworm. This magic trick, it’s supposed to last ten minutes. Ten minutes and poof and awe and free from my premature grave. The sli...

• Office King

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:54 in getting paid, job, relationship, surreal, weird

  Someone save me before I decide to save myself. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm This is like trying to build a sand castle in the Sahara. No water = no castle. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII am IM. ; )...

• Cold and Numb

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:52 in Current Events, surreal, weird

  I’m shivering. It’s cold and lonely. I close my eyes and think of a party I once had; my friends around talking and joking. I’m shivering, and I think, love plus hate equals zero. My...

• Psychic

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:48 in relationship, surreal, weird, women

  This psychic, her head shaved, her fingers disappearing behind rings, she asks me, “So, that girl’s giving you problems, huh?” Now, this is the first thing she’s said, and to...

• My Guinness Bid/Step One to Stardom!

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:26 in death, relationship, surreal, weird, women

  First, I have to say that I didn't think it'd take so much prep. lol. Scalpel. Saw. PCP (already ingested!). Pen and paper -- I guess for posterity; maybe I will get into Guinness :) I need to hurry...

• White Room (yet again)

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:25 in death, relationship, surreal, weird, women

  Help me out! I'm going to write The White Room series (White Room, White Room (again)) over and over until I find one that sticks. Why? Because I'm going to turn the good one into a short film. Help m...

• White Room (again)

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:22 in relationship, surreal, weird

  I stand with my back to the television. On it I hear the world screaming. With my back to it, I stare at the wall. A white wall that stands tall in front of me. It's plain and white and flat and insur...

• White Room

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:16 in relationship, surreal, ufo, weird

  My box. My space. It's 10x10. It's white and plain and seamless. It's a mold gelled together for simplicity sake. My box, it's sailing through space — The Great Beyond. "Not long now.&q...

• Pop Goes the Weasel

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 10:14 in job, surreal, weird

  Pop goes the weasel, pop goes the head and into the dirt it lands to freebase with the dead. I sit here used. I sit here wanting to use use use use use use use use use use use use use use use use u...