Stories tagged “driveway”
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Be Cute
Long, drawn out sobs escape me as I lie against the pavement in my driveway. I can’t stop, no matter how hard I try. Even the honeysuckle-scented, humid air can’t calm the torrent of tears. I focus on one star and continue to shake. My eyes...
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There Are Many Roads
In an empty field near Petersburg, a farmer chewing wheatgrass haggles with a crone. A driveway, rubbled with gravel stretches to nowhere. A sand swept South African road snakes to a sunset filled with dust devils, Ntembo clicking quietly to an arachno...
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Fake Estate
It was September fourteenth, two days after the encounter. Zack sat motionless in his car, parked by a curb, a quarter of a mile away from the property. Whatever had finally drawn him out to sate his curiosity on the twelfth now held a magnetic repulsi...