Stories tagged with "hand"
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What a pickle

He always considered his wife as kind of funny looking. Not in the slightly squint eyed sort of way, but in the not-quite-abl…
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Feed the Hand That Bites
It had to be the strangest form of life in the entire universe, at least it was the strangest that Harvey had every found in …
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The fixer

As soon as his door closed behind her, the intercom buzzed.
“Hold my calls, Louise.”
With deliberate grace he reached into …
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BOGOF!

“You know we needed protection. I got it. Two for one!” she said. When she got to the house, she told them where to sit. She …
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Handing Down An Assignment

Thingoff tapped his ring finger in a tattoo on the counter below him. Yesterday’s assessment had worn him out. Finger calisth…
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Open the Door
Please.
Let me in. Don’t close the door. I’m scared that I’m too weak to open it myself again. I don’t think I’ll be able t…
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The Most Difficult Decision

A man enters his home, with confidence and conviction.
For years, he has been making up his mind, and today – it is made up…
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Just Your Normal Farm
Not far from a very small town that was long forgotten was a farm. This farm was like any other farm that you might come acro…
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The Dumpster

“Tell me again, why we are dumpster diving?” Stanley asked.
“Too many nuts in the sack, Bruno”, Sam quipped.
Unlike Sam, t…
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And yet, it's not quite over...

She pulled out the hand and looked at it. The gun gleamed darkly in the sun, as if to encourage the light to run away from wh…