short short-stories

4 minutes or less; indexed by length

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2 min readJun 5, 2019

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4 minutes:

Happy Birthday

“I should like a cake this year, I think.”

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Indigo Moon

She gathers the star-speckled indigo folds of her sparkling night quilt and pulls them slowly up. Surrounding herself…

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Letters From the Woolly Gentleman

January 2018

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The Monday Ogre

He sucks the meat from our bones, and enters our homes, a cacophonous drudging, unwinding;

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Poking the Bear

I am not a napper. I never have been. Even during my worst bouts of insomnia, where I average three hours of sleep a…

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3 minutes:

Lightning

She does not know where it begins with this man, the sound of him speaking always touching her ears, her mind, brushing…

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2 minutes:

1978

There was an August evening, the kind where the air hangs low and humid as though it is crawling out of the creek and…

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The Golden Chain

“It would be like not breathing, you see,” Chloe intoned drily from the drapes by the window. “I’ve spent a great deal…

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Lost

Fingers fumbling in the darkness, she strikes the match against the cardboard book, singeing her thumbnail and getting…

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Remembrance

Each step into the old house is a soft drift into a haze of years, stirring and awakening the sameness, the difference.

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Three Sisters

In a dim, dark hovel, a hissing cauldron bubbles over a smoky fire.

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Words

Words.

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1 minute:

On the Morning of my Passing

On the morning of my passing, they lifted me from my slumberous bed and laid me down upon the scarred surface once…

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Pixies by Evening

The little moths, lipstick-pink and sunshine-yellow, gather on the screen beneath the soft golden glow of the porch…

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The Trouble With Thursday

“There’s something wrong with Thursday,” Lissa whispered, “it isn’t creeping around in the usual manner.”

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Waiting

Here is the warmth of you, tucked up against me beneath the blankets of this comfortable cocoon, the weight of you…

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edh lamport: index

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