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Did Sesame Street Just Predict The End Of House of Cards?

Holy Cookie Monster! Sesame Street just turned House of Cards into a fable worthy of Aesop. 

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Grandparents Camp: Flash Fiction

My parents got the idea they’d send me to stay at my grandparents’ house in Florida for a week. I think my mother needed a week to herself.

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Fiction Friday: Boys And Bicycles

My stomach turns at the touch of his rough hands, and I vomit on his bare feet.

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Dormant Insecurities: Flash Fiction

My tights are cutting me in half at the waist . . . just like a sausage in its casing.

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Gravity’s Revolt: Original Science Fiction

And yet, life remained. Humankind was not of such an ilk to disappear quietly into the night. Escape may yet come to pass

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BBC's National Short Story Award Honorees Are All Women

Five insanely talented female writers, including Zadie Smith and Rose Tremain, have earned the highest of literary praise.

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Letters to Castro: Fiction from Luna Luna magazine

While we don’t have that much in common—mostly that I’m not a famous dictator—I suspect we could talk for days.

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Claude: Fiction from Luna Luna magazine

She told me George Plimpton had once tried to pick her mother up in a bar on President’s Day. She had turned him down, of course.

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