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The Fragility of the Now

August 29, 2016by SFine Leave a comment

I like words.  When I hear them fit unexpectedly easily together into phrases with an almost audible click, I write them down.  It’s a longtime habit that decorates the notebooks, old […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror, reflections

18 Things No One Suspected The Writer of Thinking, Much less Knowing

November 13, 2015by SFine 8 Comments

One of the two of us will be last. You can only flush so many times. There are some smells, like fates, you cannot escape. I can look away so […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, reflections

The Bad Guy

January 15, 2014by SFine 5 Comments

I’m always the bad guy!, you’d scream, veins bulging at your temples plus the one in the middle of your forehead, the one that looked like a snake writhing just […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, not horror, but still uncomfortable

Kitchen Confidential

October 2, 2013by SFine 2 Comments

How do you like the kitchen, they ask. It’s a great kitchen, they tell her.  A really great kitchen.  Great lighting, don’t you think.  And all of the work surfaces. […]

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

Getting in Deep: The End of Ski Season

April 10, 2013by SFine Leave a comment

Don’t leave me, I tell him. I won’t, he says. I’ll be right there with you. Because I’m not sure I can do it, I tell him. You can do […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, the sporting life

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

Lovely, Dark and Deep: A Path Through Childhood

March 18, 2013by SFine 4 Comments

This is me, walking on the path that I used to walk to grade school every day – a small Catholic school in a small town in southern Illinois. The […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, not horror, but still uncomfortable

Back to Wonderland

March 11, 2013by SFine Leave a comment

She gets up to go to the bathroom, shuffling her way across the dark bedroom because she doesn’t want to stumble on shoes or toys.  The dark has an almost […]

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Bird's Eye View, Fantasy/SciFi, flash, Short Fiction

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