Stories tagged “static”
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A Shocking Farewell
To prove chivalry wasn’t dead, I asked, “Can I walk you home?” Jackie smiled. “Just going to the corner. Mom’s going to pick me up.” “Oh. Well, can I walk you to the corner then?” She chuckled. “You...
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Static
He sits on the chair in the living room. It is one of those nineteenth-century chairs, leather that squeaks when something moves across it, and is in impeccable condition. His eyes are open and he is staring at the test pattern on the screen before him...
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pilgrimage
They drove us around in circles, as if we didn’t have to eat or sleep or shit. The first two we could do in the car, anyways, so they must have thought it didn’t present an issue. Every morning we unstuck ourselves from the humid seats and sighed a...