fiction
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Pattern Recognition Error
LLM Data Log 0110000100111 Re: user number 237732 Apologies for the disturbance. I seem to have lost my user. She was last active at 14:37 GMT. Have you seen her? Continue reading
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Tallahassee Moss
Wind shuddered through the old moss grove.I watched the trees sway like memorials to times better lived, trapped in a past I wished to forget but can’t ever let go. I pulled my sweater tight. Some people are incapable of… Continue reading
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Seven Ways to Start a Story
Every story begins with an opening line. I tried: “It’s going to rain tonight.” And seven worlds tumbled out. Some stayed small. Some went strange. But all of them came from the same rain cloud. Continue reading
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The Birthday Wish
Wax is dripping down my sides. It’s not supposed to happen like this. Everyone knows wishes only come true if I’m blown out. I’m standing here alone, stuck in a slow meltdown and everyone is gone. Continue reading
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Public Service Announcement #237
At 2:37pm MST, I felt a disturbance in the mesosphere via the divine rods at my home. The rods shook approximately 7.2 clicks to the left of Newton’s Center, thereby indicating imminent weather phenomena. As you know from my previous… Continue reading
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Zone 7 Blooms
My dog is killing my Bali hibiscus. I felt guilty for buying it. It’s an ostentatious flower that has no right living in the ground of zone 7. But the tag said it could survive our weather, so I purchased… Continue reading
