Life’s Weirder Than Fiction

Fiction Friday >> Don’t breathe

[Fiction] Friday “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” What has your character turned into? I woke up, moving from sleeping to wide awake in a fraction of a second. I didn’t, however, open my eyes. I admit it, I was afraid. Afraid? ...

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Fiction Friday — “Sorry”

[Fiction] Friday Challenge #144 for 26th February, 2010 The bag was empty except for a smudged, slip of paper which said, “Sorry.” The bag was empty except for a smudged, slip of paper, which said, “Sorry.” Jeannie hadn’t touched the precious artifact yet but she could clearly see the letters, crudely written with what she hoped might ...

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The First Chapters Club

It’s not a tale of money, revenge, and it’s not modeled after the story of three women intent on plucking their husbands dry. But the First Chapters Club could lead you to laughter, tears, passion, fear, discovery, love, travel, murder, adventure, ogres, fairies, evil, aliens, evil aliens, zombies, samurais, and much, much more. Zumaya Publications has ...

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Fiction Friday>> Life’s joke

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for September 25th, 2009: The house lights dim, the curtain goes up… you’re on. Life’s a stage, someone said. Shakespeare, maybe, or some other writer who got immortalized. That’s what I do: I play at life. Life’s a joke. It grabs you when you rush out of your mother’s womb and lets you go ...

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Fiction Friday>> Nine Lives

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for June 5th, 2009: “Don’t sit there,” she commanded. “That’s the cat’s chair.” “Let’s talk about this,” I said. “We’ll sit down, reason it out.” I backed slowly toward the living room, my eyes glued to hers, my hands away from my body to show I didn’t mean any harm. I could see her ...

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