Jenny, who is a dog, watches entirely more TV than I do these days. She can’t read, yet, but she has figured out which button…
A sequel to Jenny and the TV (Jenny, pt 2)
Pat J's inspiration
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Study time (Jenny, pt. 3) used:
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Black iron, black feather used:
She played her mandolin at the fair grounds twenty seven times a year. She always sat barefoot in her folding chair, wearing …
A sequel to White chrysanthemums bloom in her heart.
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Something blue used:
I felt it slide – too sugary sweet, like wedding cake frosting – down my throat and grimaced.
I waited. Listening, being in…
A prequel to Something borrowed
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Ice cream used:
sky is cracking by German M
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Negotiations used:
It’s a hundred miles from here to the next town. Easy enough in a car, but when you’re walking with an empty jerry-can that y…
A sequel to Walkin'
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Walkin' used:
Part of me still hopes this is a hallucination, that my dying brain is having me on one last time. But the rest of me hopes i…
A prequel to Negotiations
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The Contract used:
running with the seagulls by Ed Schipul
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Jenny and the TV (Jenny, pt 2) used:
Jenny, who is a dog, came into the living room, sat down on the floor, and spoke. “What supper?” she said, tail thumping on t…
A sequel to Jenny, who is a dog
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Jenny and the TV (Jenny, pt 2) used:
Jenny, who is a dog, graduated yesterday. I sat in the audience, thrilled as any parent, as she shook paws with the Chancello…
A prequel to Study time (Jenny, pt. 3)
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Drilling into the Aqueous Humour used:
We entered the eye late the third day, after spending a night camped in the forest of his beard. In those days I was the newe…
A sequel to Climbing the giant
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Climbing the giant used:
The sappers assembled the drill, and the sergeant called on the mindlink for volunteers to pedal the pistons that, somehow, d…
A prequel to Drilling into the Aqueous Humour
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If Wishes Were Horses used:
...Millions just fell from the sky.
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The simulation used:
clouds over hills by Victor Szalvay
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Jenny, who is a dog used:
I parked the car next to the dog pen and got out. As usual, Lexy was waiting for me, looking expectantly with ears perked and…
A prequel to Lexy, Who is also a dog
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Jenny, who is a dog used:
Jenny, who is a dog, watches entirely more TV than I do these days. She can’t read, yet, but she has figured out which button…
A prequel to Jenny and the TV (Jenny, pt 2)
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The fall used:
Acrid bile crept up from my stomach. The thought of that thing touching me was too much. I stared down at my wife’s placid fa…
A sequel to A Solution or Two
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Cobwebs used:
Pulling my hand away from my beloved’s face, I clenched my fist. This would not be easy; I knew that. But it had to be done. ...
A prequel to An End to the Charade
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On the ridge used:
I buried Dan in the mud at the edge of the baobab’s root system. There wasn’t a mark on his body, but his abdomen looked all …
A sequel to Tracks in the mud
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Tracks in the mud used:
We slept in the shelter of a spreading baobab tree. At four in the morning, by the faint blue dial of my wristwatch, I woke t…
A sequel to Four AM in the rain
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Tracks in the mud used:
The murft’s tracks petered out at the top of a stony ridge. The trees were thinning out here, and I could see down into the…
A prequel to On the ridge
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Four AM in the rain used:
Moving deeper into the jungle, we came first to an abandoned shack, overgrown with moss and vivid orange fungi that crumbled …
A sequel to Pursuit
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Four AM in the rain used:
I buried Dan in the mud at the edge of the baobab’s root system. There wasn’t a mark on his body, but his abdomen looked all …
A prequel to Tracks in the mud
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Pursuit used:
We slept in the shelter of a spreading baobab tree. At four in the morning, by the faint blue dial of my wristwatch, I woke t…
A prequel to Four AM in the rain
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Ask and Embla used:
they'll dance until end of days by Naama ym
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Thus do I dream; thus do I wake used:
I think Les’s poem killed me.
At least that’s what it looked like. Me in corporeal form, all floaty, wandering down a row of…
A prequel to Dream, Dream, Dream (CLFM 19)
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So it was her all along used:
Indoor Lightning by Paul Hart
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So it was her all along used:
At this point the lizard decided it was safer on it’s own and unzipped its heater pouch. After a quick scurry to my head, it …
A prequel to The Shocking Truth
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The Down Staircase used:
Lookin' down by hugovk
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The Down Staircase used:
As the dark one watched, amusement and disdain both plain on his face, the man trudged down towards hell. Three steps down an…
A prequel to Down to the Damned
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Rain used:
Lifting his face to the broken heavens, Murray closed his eyes and let the warm rain drench him. After tonight, he didn’t thi…
A prequel to Rain and Raven
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Rain used:
When had the dreams started? Months? Years? It was impossible to say; Murray couldn’t remember life before. They came with th…
A sequel to Omens
