Stories tagged “brothers”
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Eulogy From a Productive Member of Society
Here are the three things I know for sure about my late brother-in-law Joseph David Kepler: In twenty years I think I saw him sober three times. He was a terrible poet. And that overdose was no accident, and neither were any of the others. The brutal t...
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Expectations of the Bottle Deflty Swung
Nearly void of its recent distilled contents, the bottle glinted in the array of lights in the bar. The yellow light over the pool table shone through its square sides at the apex of its arc. The blue from the neon Bud Light sign danced along its squar...
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Brotherly Love
A light breeze drifted up the hill and danced lazily amongst the tall prairie grasses. It swept around the strong tree-like legs of Dao Haising as he stood in a defensive stance. It swirled around the spindly legs of his brother, Kae Haising, as he gri...
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A Plastic Pause
He stared at the humongous fish tank that severed the restaurant in two and wondered what the waiter’s reaction would be if he demanded the pale orange guy hovering near the plastic diver. “Do you even hear what I’m saying,” Michael asked. “C...
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Time is Running Out
“We could change our names, or even move to another country.” Arnie said to his brother Arnold who was standing next to a stream of water that connected his house to the ocean. “Arnie last time I am going to say this we are not going ...
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Moving
SLAM. Trip stood up over the box, fists pressing into his lower back. He let out a mighty sigh through clenched teeth. “Th’hell do you have in here? Bricks?” “Books, dude. My books.” “You’re not in school anymo...
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Cain and Abel [incest challenge]
“Cain!” his name tumbles from my lips as I move against his body, asking for pleasure I know only he can give me. No one can love me like he can. “Oh, fuck, Abel!” His voice quavers, hanging in the air between us, above the melo...
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A Nice Day For a White Wedding
Jack pulled the door shut behind him and adjusted his cufflinks. They kept getting caught on the cuff of his jacket. It was beginning to get on his nerves. “So what’s so important that you had to talk to me right now? I’m getting marr...
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Old Habits Die Hard
“Luc, I’m marrying Carrie today. I can’t do this,” Jack said, his hands searching for the doorhandle behind him. “Sure you can,” Lucas said. “It’s just like when we were kids. Remember when mum made us ta...
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The Wedding Is Most Definitely Off
She stopped dead in the doorway, paralysed by what her husband to be was doing to his brother. Carrie had always suspected that there was someone else but she had thought that Jack would get over it once they were married. Obviously she was wrong. They...