A Nightmare Vacation

A long overdue vacation is abruptly cut short when the captain of my cruise ship announces that we are sinking. He explains the situation is a result of navigational error and his troubled youth. A brief counseling session is held to return the captain’s spirits, and he orders his crew to…

The Joys of Marriage

It is a stale and balmy Sunday in Ashford as I am in attendance for the marriage of Charles and Daphne Krump at the Royal Estates Country Club just outside of town. Their garden nuptials are rather beautiful and seem to be moving along just as anticipated before a gigantic bird resembling a…

Fortune Cookie

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The Farrago Nation

It is a bitterly cold evening on February 13th as I drive to meet a group of friends at a lake house in Prince Edward Park. The faded headlamps of my non-terrain two-wheel drive sports car struggle to satiate the darkness that binds the forest around us. I glance at the clock on the dashboard…

Saturn Fell

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Long Lost Friend

It had been four years since I had seen Isaac, my best friend in university. I hadn’t planned on spending all those years apart from each other. Who would have thought we’d meet by accident like this, in a coffee shop in the middle of Prague? What were the chances of this happening? Yet, here we…

An Interview with JX4927

“How would you say it all started?”

“It started with a kiss. Maybe that’s just me romanticizing it all, but if I had to trace it back to a beginning, it would have started with that kiss. It was the spark that carried life for me. For all of us. That first…

A Walk in the Park

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Semester at Sea

Having been run out of my home town near the sea for an unfortunate misunderstanding involving a banana, I decide to acquire a small sail boat and traverse the waters in search of both adventure and myself. Sadly my sailing skills leave much to be desired and I become the sole inhabitant of a…

Members Only

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Alone in the dead of night, I wander the streets and back alleys of my city looking for companionship. While walking a…