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“The devil’s in the details, but he doesn’t live there.” “Huh.” “Not his mailing address.” “Ok.” “You could get a message to him at details for devil, but …” “I’ll bite, the fuck?” “We’re friends...

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“Detective Reese,” he didn’t extend a right hand for shaking, “You the forsenic tech?” “Yes sir,” abe said withdrawing his own shaking hand “Abe Mort —“ “Yeah, kid, I’m not going to remember your...

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“Some say love it is a taco With steak bites and cilantro, Some say love it is a twinkie Or perhaps, um, a fat ho-ho, I say love’s a baseball diamond With you the squat short stop Love it is a sh...

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In the great hall birds frittered the days in the filtered haze of sunlight through age darkened windows, the names of men forgotten on their beaks. In the gloaming the bats would wake with a bus...

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“ I don’t see any way out, love.” She paused for a moment, an affectation of reflection, a moment of silence. “We had a pretty good run.” “Yes we did, smoked em right down to the butts.” I paused...

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“What flavor are the green ones?” “Holocaust. What about the red ones?” “Tricky, they smell like Jesus H Christ, but taste like moss and almond butter. What about the blue ones?” “A bitchy bouque...

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“My Jesus H one eyed jack of Christ Born thorny on the tree, there’s the only rub; My star spangled bananer and me …” Coffee mugs thudded on the table. Open fucking mike night. Bad enough they le...

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Ok, this is my first prompted flash Friday in forever. It’s silly and ill conceived, but took less than fifteen minutes from conception to completion. Now that it’s out of my system I might do a ...

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“Tell me again.” “What?” “Look in my eyes and tell me again.” He looks me straight in the eyes, not blinking. Blue, not like a serene lake in august, blue like a gun. “I didn’t sleep with that wo...

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The death of Jonas White made about as much sense as anything; not much. I could tell you how it happened, I will tell you how happened, but that’s not making sense of it. It might make it cohere...

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“ … Grandma divorced him about a month after he told me that. When he died he was alone in that big fucking house, broke his ankle near the fuse box and they guessed he starved to death. Of cours...

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“The biography of the man who hardly existed at all” “Excellent title, I would never read it.” “Why not?” “It’s bound to be disappointing. Have you written it already? You could just call it some...

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“I met this woman from Maine.” “Bang her?” “No, Portland.” “Was she cold?” “I met her in June, in Jacksonville, a long way from Maine.” “Nice.” “She had this quirk.” “Tourettes? Sociopathy? Washi...

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I went in the coffee house to duck the rain. Ten years ago it would have looked like a fifties diner. It didn’t. It was faux hipster with antiqued and shellacked wonderland posters. I paid the la...

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“John. John Synder.” “Don’t know him.” “You’re George Collins.” “Yes, I do know me.” “I’m introducing myself Mr. Collins, I’m John Synder.” “Excellent, glad we’ve cleared that up. But, I’m afraid...

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“What is the difference between the $10 reading and the 50$ reading, besides forty bucks.” “For ten dollars you get a five card major arcana reading, for fifty you get the full spread using both ...

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The neighbor dog was at the end of his tether, dewclaws ticking against the chain link, barking at a squirrel up a tree. I squinted; red squirrel, bushy tail, chittering with an exaggerated overb...

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I just wanted a taste. Just a hit. I wasn’t chasing the dragon anymore than I would chase a fucking unicorn. It’s a phrase, nothing more; there is no dragon and you can’t catch it. Three years l...

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I take a bite from her forearm. It’s cold and sinewy and makes me a gag a bit. I spit it into a ziplock baggie and shove it deep in my pocket. The ME will tell him the bite was post mortem. The M...

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“This place looks familiar.” “Well, it isn’t.” “You sure?” “It was burned down last year, three years ago it was torched and five years ago it collapsed of a broken heart.” “My mistake then. Jack...

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“Who doesn’t like tequila?” “Seriously? Or is that rhetorical.” “If you’ve got a serious-ish answer, please, by all means …” “Communists, Terrorists and cats.” “Huh. I’ve never knowingly tried to...

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I was going to write a flash tonigh. I guess I can call it today. Doesn’t matter I’m already actively not writing one. The throbbing in my ear is now a visual too, I fully expect a throbbing smel...

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I woke sweating. A few embers popped, dark red under a crust of black. It’s all I could see. Night. Oh. Yeah. North of White horse, winter. I bet on that one hole course on a twenty foot sailboat...

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“ So, if you could get away with any crime, what would do?” “You mean like kill someone?” “Jesus, why does everyone go straight to murder?” “Maybe it’s the tedium of the question, I mean when I w...

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“You’re quite a bit over-qualified for this job Mr. Dawg.” “I realize How good I look on paper, ma’am, but in real life I’m quite a bit dumber than I look.” “Even So … you applying for a line coo...

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