D S LaBrie's published ficlets
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Understanding

It was a lot to take in, everything they had to tell me about my life.
So now I’m Jack. I guess I have to choose: go forward…
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A package

It arrived on his doorstep seemingly without anyone delivering it. He had walked down to the mailbox – nothing today – and wh…
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Are Cereal Spoons for Bending or is a New Breath a First?

Isobel took a brand new gasp. She didn’t know spit about atmospheric bombardments and was only beginning to grasp the idea th…
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Don't Look; It's Not On the Edge of Town

Nothing to see here. Definitely not an undeletable double post, that’s for sure. Just go on back to my other stories like not…
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On the Edge of Town

We ran out of gas ten miles from town. The clunker we had loaned from Sarkins got piss poor mileage, but at least it got us w…
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A Midtown Jog
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A Hero
Crime had gotten out of hand in the neighborhood. It used to be the odd carjacking and maybe a break in, but now the corner g…
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Night Shift
The office is quiet in that deafening way. The constant whir of the different machines folding together in a kind of dischord…