Stories tagged “surreal”
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Dream of Mars
There’s an apartment in Seoul, down the trembling alleyways of Itaewon and beside unmarked graves of dust and clay. The apartment has a kitchen, a living room area, a bedroom and a claustrophobic bathroom. Though the fridge is always stocked and ...
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Pieced
It was the mole beneath the left nostril that clued her in. The little brown spot with two dark hairs springing from its center was the catalyst to her frightening discovery. Evelyn had seen this face before-not as it was, but as it had been in thirty-...
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Memory Garden (Tulip)
ANNA REMEMBERED PLAYING WITH DOLLS and making mud pies in the garden when she was little. She had friends then; a boy named Robert with freckled cheeks, a girl named Helen that always chewed gum. Anna liked to sit and remember her friends, they were th...
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Meeting
1. Good afternoon Mr…. 2. George 1. Ah very well, George nice to meet you please take a seat. 2. Thanks. 1. So George… 2. John 1. Your name is John? 2. Yes 1. Your name is John George 2. Yes 1. Well John, may I call you John? 2. Yes 1. Good, good,...
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City of Dreams
They call Paris the city of dreams these days, which is kind of funny or maybe ironic, since all the other Earthly cities are nothing now but dust and dreams. No one really remembers how it happened, or why, but one day the tide turned and the sea chan...
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Show us some leg
The constant tapping sound was what woke him but he knew better than to open his eyes first off. Tensing muscles in his arms and legs, he discovered that he was strapped down, spread-eagled in fact. This was not a good sign. “Ahh, you’re aw...
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14:14
14:14 Had to look twice. It didn’t seem right, in some undefined way. 14:14? Come again? How so? A bit of a non-time, wouldn’t you agree? Patently after lunch, but well before afternoon tea, falling somewhere in a temporal chasm, a time-well of non...
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The Harvesters Broken
If this is a last will and testament then so be it. The chaff broke through the lines last night. I slept clean through it. Sarah always said I’d sleep through the apocalypse and it looks like she was right. I woke from a dream of transformation ...
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Resolutions Amongst the Odors and Vapors
Somewhere between the cacophony of the crowd and the sound of his own heartbeat thundering in his ears, reality melted away in the dingy bathroom. Something scuttled across the broken, lime-green tile; Peter decided not to look. Eyes front and jaw set ...