Bearded Jon's published ficlets
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Boom Boom Boom (pop)
And things just kept getting bigger and bigger and more and more out of hand until, well, you probably saw the footage on CNN.
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A Light in the Distance
The day the Sutton Roadhouse burned we were taking a new washer and drier to Valdez for the house down there. I was 14 or 15 …
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I Am Empty Like the Ocean
I am empty like the ocean.
I am turbulent wind swept roiling foam. I am the dead calm of doldrums. I am the giant rolling sw…
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On the Cusp
Tomorrow will be my 14,245th day, the first day of my 40th year.
I have been around for 14,244 days. I was born on a Monday …
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Sunrise
It was light but the sun had yet to break the mountain tops to warm his face. He was in the foothills and could see the sun’s…
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Tis The Season
The ache creeps into my shoulders, spreads down my arms.
Is it from hunching over the keyboard? Is it my posture?
A tickle …
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the stolen... more
We’re not that different, you and I he thought of the mosquito. _We both prey upon others. We both just want to be in and o…
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De Luxe Olympia
I started on a typewriter just like this one, maybe this one. A De Luxe Olympia. I didn’t know QUERTY and was not acquainted …
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The Pencil
He hadn’t held a pencil in his hands in a long time. The octagonal shaft felt good, its weight comfortable, the paint tacky, ...
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The Bottle
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