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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

On Frenchman, Motorcycles, and Love at First Bite

January 19, 2016by SFine 1 Comment

“Here,” I give him a four pack of mini-canelés – the Dark Chocolate Chunk which are like little French kisses from someone maybe you oughtn’t be kissing – and he […]

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Bird's Eye View

The Visitation of Mike Brady

October 3, 2013by SFine 1 Comment

The doorbell  buzzed, and it wasn’t an especially long buzz or short buzz.  It was just a regular buzz.  There was nothing of the harbinger about it. I figured it […]

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

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

The Search

June 16, 2013by SFine 1 Comment

We were up early in the cold.  No one talked much.  There was only the sound of crying, which you might expect. I wish she’d stop carrying on so, someone […]

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

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

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

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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