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Fiction: Wise

April 18, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

By: Lisa Buscani She stands in the doorway, arching her back in the way that emulates every late-night TV black-and-white screen sex goddess she can remember. Common sense tells her […]

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Fiction, Sex, Women
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Fiction: Falling In To Place

November 15, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Timothy Elliot Again, she steps onto the steel platform to cross over the highway. Today, she may be one of only a handful to have walked this path, interesting […]

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Fiction: Knifework

October 23, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Patrick Gill Trigger Warning: Graphic Violence.  Keep it dark, he thought, keep down the bill.  Pitch, with a few pockets of 60-watt suns.  Sitting at the counter in his […]

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Fiction, Race
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Fiction: Acid Sissy

May 26, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Joshua Barton splinters of ice cold frozen piercings, bleeding gums and white sores. the black spores of American discontent are spreading through a humid summer breeze. vacant rooms, gray […]

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Fiction, Gay
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Fiction: “The Affair That Never Happened”

May 19, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Shelly Phillips   Fine.  I’m going to do absolutely fine. As Alexia Miller steadily made her way down the shaded sidewalk, book bag bouncing with every light step, it […]

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Fiction: Eureka

May 12, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Patrick Gill “Any floating object displaces it own weight of fluid.” – Archimedes of Syracuse His body fell.  We could say he jumped; he did land feet first from his […]

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Fiction: How Do You Know

April 19, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Zach Stafford  Get their 30 minutes early.  Since it is free, there will be a wait. When you arrive, go to the front desk, say, “Hi, I am here […]

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Fiction, Health, Life
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Fiction: I Don’t See What You See In Me (NSFW)

April 16, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Luis Blasini  The restaurant has wooden floors and mirrors behind the bar. It’s full, but politely so. We sit at the bar and I ask why we never sit […]

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Dating, Fiction, Sex

Fiction: The Tale of Amar

January 7, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Jason Wyman Once there was an old, gray Mutt with a large bushy white mustache and black feet named Amar. Amar was floating on a boat made of reeds […]

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Fiction: “Los Necios”

December 23, 2011by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Johnny Gall The call comes late. Too late to leave the house. You always warned us not to go out after dark if we could avoid it. “If you […]

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Fiction, Life

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