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Man Enough to Evolve – 3 –
I had to look for help, the dreams were all consuming, it had been about a year, and I figured that I was getting an unhealthy amount of sleep. There were just so many important things happening to dream-me and I had to be there to see it all. Dream-me was helping our dream girl…
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Man Enough to Evolve – 2 –
What if I’d died? Would she even care? I’m not asking to be melodramatic, it’s genuine curiosity. After she drove away, I didn’t hear from her and it had me wondering. Was it all nothin, were all those dinners we shared just nothing? There were so many in such a short time, and I swear…
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Man Enough to Evolve – 1 –
My flaws run very deep, so deep they name my every action. I can’t do anything without running into them. I have an aversion to people; maybe I’m afraid of them or maybe I am filled with disdain for their flaws. I am unforgiving, I am self conscious and self centered. These things run deep.…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 5 –
*** Just put the guns down and go home. Violette says exasperated. Just tell me where the safe is and I’ll let you both walk away from this alive. Freda is not her normal self, the high stakes she finds herself in have her adrenaline pumping. Freda, this ain’t like you… Esther tries. Don’t! Stop!…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 4 –
4. “This is a go to hell free card, I know it.” Jerry was upset as he swiped the Bible from the motel room where his friend Trevor held the door open while keeping a lookout for anyone coming. “Come on!” Trevor said with urgency. He was not the same young man that he had…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 3 –
*** Violette moves toward the light before answering Esther. She doesn’t know where they are, only that they are in the part of the city that has been long forgotten by industry. The neighborhood where they skulk the darkness had at one time boomed with textile manufacturing, now it is mostly filled with abandoned buildings…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 2 –
*** Violette practically pushes Esther to shuffle faster down the dim corridor. She can hear the voice behind them getting closer, though it js still far away; the two have been making their way in the narrow corridor for some time. I can’t go any faster. Esther says, stumbling over her left foot that leads…
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How I Make Money, featuring Esther and Violette – 1 –
*** Don’t touch me! I’m not trying to touch you! If I could avoid it, I would, believe me. Back up then! You’re right up on me. Esther and Violette are making their way through darkness. It is very late at night, the only light is faint and far off, showing the thin width of…
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The Magician 12. Busting Out
“I won’t do another mission for the CIA.” Kevin says to Anish. “I want to leave this place.” Anish nods. “I get that.” “You were right. It didn’t take them long to take advantage of my ability to violate people’s rights. And that’s not as bad as accidentally killing people, but it’s not great either.…
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Issue 12, Vol. II – November 18, 2016
We started Volume II more than a year ago, in the summer of 2015. I have to accept blame for the delays, but what does that matter right now? All that matters is that we have come to the end of another Volume of the Parallel Serials, home of big stories told in small pieces.…