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The Last Whale

April 10, 2017by SFine 5 Comments

When the last whale passed by there was so much excitement you almost forgot it was supposed to be a sad thing that was happening. Everyone was out on the […]

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Bird's Eye View, Fantasy/SciFi, not horror, but still uncomfortable, Short Fiction

The Banquet of Desire

September 14, 2016by SFine 5 Comments

I want to chew through you like steak. I want to feel the many textures of you against my tongue – here, rough like salted almonds; there, smooth like mashed […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, not horror, but still uncomfortable

Under the Stare of the Moon

August 31, 2015by SFine 4 Comments

I am the moon, that eye high in the sky you thought followed you when you were a child. I wasn’t following you but I was watching you, all right. […]

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Bird's Eye View

The Heart Is An Organ Of Fire

April 12, 2013by SFine 3 Comments

 She is traveling, something she will probably be doing more of now,  after the breakup.  She has begun noticing the distraction of other people again. At the airport, a couple […]

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Bird's Eye View, flash, love, Short Fiction

Divorce: A Dog’s Eye View

April 10, 2013by SFine 10 Comments

The house is dark, everyone asleep but the Woman, who is sitting at her open bedroom window crying and sneaking a smoke, a secret she will keep from everyone but […]

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Bird's Eye View, flash, Short Fiction

I Have My Mother’s Eyes

April 3, 2013by SFine 11 Comments

I always think about you on father’s day, how you didn’t get a chance to know your daddy.  He died when you were just eight.   Your few memories of him […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, reflections

Cristobel of Tragicstan

April 1, 2013by SFine 6 Comments

She sits at the kitchen table drinking coffee and wishing for a cigarette.  It was a stupid wish, because she gave up smoking for the last time a month ago.  […]

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Bird's Eye View, flash, growing up midwestern, Short Fiction

Sounds of the Night Watch: A Cry In the Dark

March 27, 2013by SFine 9 Comments

Last night I woke suddenly, as if ejected from sleep.  I couldn’t see the clock over the vague hump of your blanketed shoulder, but it was the deepest ditch of […]

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Bird's Eye View, flash, not horror, but still uncomfortable, Short Fiction

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