Category: Stories
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The Chunk by Michael McGlade
Listen to this story on the podcast. Even when you’re just passing through, sometimes you can’t help but notice when something’s wrong. The weekend after Halloween is when they have the annual Punkin Chunkin championship in Delaware, which is where a bunch of backyard engineers compete to turn pumpkins into projectiles. Folks wear hollowed-out pumpkins…
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Death by Fiction by J. M. Vogel
Listen to this story on the podcast. There’s a blurred line between truth and fiction that you don’t want to cross. Alexander sat at his desk, his fingers pounding away on the keyboard. After days of trying to figure out this one particular passage of his novel, he finally knew how he wanted to end…
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Bad John by Adam Howe
What’s not to like about a dog-lover? Sadie shivered in the falling snow, hands dug deep in the pockets of her mangy leopard print coat, hungrily eyeing the cars curb-crawling the Strip. Music boomed inside the titty bar behind her, the black tinted window quaking to the bass. She’d danced there herself when she first…
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An Unexpected Invitation by Daniel Marshall Wood
Listen to this story on the podcast. “You are cordially invited…” “Do you think black tie?” Delia asked her husband late Sunday afternoon. Beyond the diamond-paned library window flagstones disappeared under white powder. “What?” Adam stirred from dedicated concentration on the Times crossword, upsetting a grey tabby from her corduroy perch. “The clue is ‘Barker…
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Write Your Epitaph by Laird Long
Listen to this story on the podcast. It’s never too late to catch a dream. The judge was banging down hard on his gavel, but the angry hammering was lost in the babble of furious voices—shouting, swearing, screaming, howling. Someone stole a purse, busted into a store, scored some drugs, turned some tricks, fell down…