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Tag Archives: Apocalyptic
357/365 – THE CONSTANT MAN
Word Count: 486 He was a strange little man. Nobody knew who he was but everyone knew him. If you believed the talk, he’d been around forever. The kids knew him, their parents and grandparents remembered him when they were … Continue reading
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352/365 – THE PEACH
Word Count: 383 He may have walked for miles, he wasn’t aware of time and the countryside looked the same everywhere. Gray, burnt, dead. He noticed an orchard, tree trunks rowed and columned, height level and broken. He sidetracked into … 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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281/365 – THE END OF THE WORLD
Word Count: 359 The man said that the end was near and so I bought what he was selling. “Excelsior” the label said. “Like having Jesus in a bottle!” said the man. It tasted like cherry cough syrup laced with … Continue reading
021/100 aka 161/365
THE BOOK Word Count: 590 He found the book one day when he was looking for a hammer. It held up the broken leg of the workbench where his father’s father’s tools were arranged on hooks on a pegboard on … Continue reading
001/100 aka 141/365
THE APOCALYPSE OF THE LAPTOPS Word Count: 315 I sit here not knowing whether I will rise along with the holy folk or stay here doomed for another five months to pick my way amid the debris that is life. … Continue reading