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• I Began to Talk [GSC]

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 25 days ago

  “The panel will see you now.”
  I rose slowly, my eyes following the menacing fella in front of me for a few steps. I swear, I …

• Cole's Idiom on the Road

  by THX 0477 6 months ago

  An interview cut short but the better part of an afternoon ruined, Cole slid with velveteen grace into his white Carmengia. H…

• Time on His Mind

  by THX 0477 6 months ago

  4 girls. 4 months. and 22 days.

  Slack-jawed and bleary-eyed Agent Lefleur sifted back through the notes, photos, reports, an…

• The End

  by Seth Miller 7 months ago

  “C’mon! It’ll only take a second,” she said. “Besides, we’ve been meaning to have our picture made together.”

  “Taken,” I cor…

• Sweet Departure

  by THX 0477 7 months ago

  Cicada hummed in the trees, a soundtrack for a Southern night. Sweet walked down the gravel road with his eyes fixed forward….

• The Whistling Wind: A Southern Haunting

  by Hobo Beard Bob 9 months ago

  Well now, you sayin that reminds me of that time, bout ten years ago, when that black fella come ta town. He was tha best whi…

• The Fedora: A Southern Haunting

  by Hobo Beard Bob 9 months ago

  Velda Clark, the liberrian fer Lampshade Public Liberry, here in Lampshade, Alabama, swears this un is true. I done heard fro…

• Echolocation, Country Style

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  “Shhh,” Sweet hissed. A bullfrog croaked on a nearby log. A lazy firefly met its swift, sticky fate. A heavy, yellow moon dan…

• Casting Couch Challenge for some Doublewide Damnation

  by THX 0477 about 1 year ago

  It’s not a regular series, cause there’s no ongoing story arc, and the individual pieces are more like random snapshots out o…

• Doublewide Damnation

  by THX 0477 about 1 year ago

  Virgil stared down the dirt road. This was the road. It led from their thrice repaired doublewide to the old highway, from …