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Talespinning by Susan Gibb is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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322/365 – STOP-MOTION IMAGERY
Word Count: 188 Click! and the child is running away from her tagger, a game that Click! several children are playing. Click! and the sleek black Camero slides down the street. Click! past the grocery and Click! past the corner … Continue reading
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321/365 – MAN-CHILD
Word Count: 227 Lord help me, I never saw the child within the man. It was too easy to look instead at his girth, the broad shoulders, the tower with the light shining blink-blink-blink above me. Some women will put … Continue reading
320/365 – SIBLING
Word Count: 383 My sister was older and should have known better, but I got away scot-free. It was always like that but my folks didn’t see it, that I was the smart one, the instigator, the one who got … Continue reading
319/365 – WAR ZONES
Word Count: 403 I followed him, the man who spent his days walking up and down Broadway. He would stop at noon, sit down in front of the Chinese take-out, when they were too busy to chase him away. He … Continue reading
318/365 – NIGHT
Word Count: 169 I saw the bell ringing, heard the sun rise and the moon chase it across the sky until it reached the safety of the western horizon. A line of pines that rim the mountains took it into … Continue reading
317/365 – THE FLAVOR OF BUGS
Word Count: 137 The bugs he thought the tastiest were the ladybugs, with a slight crunch of wings that sometimes get caught between teeth. The most vile were the stinkbugs with their bitter acidy flavor enhanced by a stomach-rolling smell. … Continue reading
316/365 – HEART
Word Count: 269 She brought her heart home in a cup, wrapped in a napkin, stuck in her purse. Her tears dried into shiny snail trails on her cheeks. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Love was supposed to … Continue reading
315/365 – DANGEROUS FOR YOUR HEALTH
Word Count: 444 The leak was getting worse. He knew it in the mornings when he noticed the stains on the pillow. He felt it in the shower but told himself it was just the hot water running gray down … Continue reading
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314/365 – WHAT I LEARNED FROM AN EGGPLANT
Word Count: 474 Catherine The Psychic told me that I had two ghosts living with me and one of them was my grandmother. She said the other one’s name was Ted and maybe he was just a former tenant. Then … Continue reading
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313/365 – RESPITE
Word Count: 341 Three friends down, one to go. Daphne was her last hope for a Friday night spent away from the serene solitude that after a month had become cloying, suffocating. She swore that one more night breathing in … Continue reading