Tag: short stories
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Short Story: Summer lover, where’d you go?
It was hot the day we met. You had a thin line of sweat above your brow, and I remember thinking you tasted like the ocean when we kissed. One too many margaritas under the sun is what happened. You were riding your board along the shallow surface of the…
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Friends in love under the open sky.
Misty wisps of clouds and a world of stars stretched above them. Ana rolled onto her side, studying Rhen as he stretched long on his back. He was different here, away from the city and the busyness of daily life. The anxious energy had left him, and he seemed utterly…
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Story Excerpt: Meet Me at the Pier
He wasn’t there. She knew it before she’d even walked out onto the pier. She could feel it. But he had promised. No matter how much he hated this little town, no matter how stuck he felt – she didn’t think he would actually leave her. Not again. She let…
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I wonder at the sea.
Sometimes, I stare at the sea and I wonder. I wonder how the stars look from just below the surface. I wonder whether the sea can feel sad. The sea will never kiss the stars, no matter how much their light is reflected in its skin. The sea knows the…
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A Curiously Rare Phenomenon, Love Is
She lounged heavily against the wicker, fine legs draped lazily across one another, a glass of ice precariously forgotten in one hand while her opposite elbow rested artfully on the arm of her chair. Ash fell to the coppery stones beneath her as she flicked the carefully rolled paper between…
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Writing Exercise: Start With A Picture
The island was on a sea of glass, water so still that the skeletal trees were a near perfect reflection as they stretched across the water. A shadow of blackened limbs against a medley of purples and orange, the mass of trees called to them, a haunting reminder of what…
VICKI SWEETS 