Tag: short story
member name: Greg Schiller
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May 01, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
Critique welcome
Somewhere East of Elko Nevada, Allen and Meg turned off the interstate to glide under the concrete canopy of a Philips 66 station. The canopy cast a deep blue pool . . .
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June 28, 2007 07:57 PM EDT --
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You're Hot!
Ha! That is quite a thing to say!
You are!
It's not polite to tell a stranger on the bus that they are hot.
You're not a stranger.
Why do you say . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Didn't see you on the bus yesterday.
Naw, I took the day off; had to go to court.
How come?
Ex-landlord refused to return my damage deposit.
You win?
Slam-dunk.
Good for you.
Typical crap, but . . .
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April 08, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
Sgt. Schultz pulled his squad behind a Volkswagen Beetle blocking the south bound lane of River Road. The little white car puttered at an uneasy idle, its air-cooled engine rattling a loose . . .
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May 03, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
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In a canyon west of Boulder Colorado, Meg eased Allen's Volkswagen down a rutted road dogging the course of a noisy brook. The lane crossed and re-crossed the stream . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:16 AM EDT --
Critique Welcome
A short story told in dialogue:
I need to be with her when she is put down.
Of course, but let me warn you that death does not always come peacefully . . .
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May 06, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
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For Meg, The Black Hills were more than mountains. She carried a worn, marked-up copy of "Black Elk Speaks" in support of her belief that . . .
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June 08, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
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You look like you have been up all night.
Yeah, we had the break-up fight. Marcy is gone.
I am really sorry to hear that. She was a nice kid.
. . .
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September 07, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
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Jane stalked the commons pond, muttering to herself. She fumed, and cursed over the self-assigned task of rousting geese with a stick. No one else would do . . .
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October 14, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
None of this is my fault.
FOXNEWS is calling it “The Payday Massacre”, like I'm some kind of gangster killer. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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June 16, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
I'm leaving Yadafone.
You never seemed happy there, Ed.
Yeah, got sick of putting in time.
That, I think, is what they call work.
No, everyone else worked, I was useless.
That, I think, . . .
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November 21, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
Once upon a time, a wealthy couple lived in a quaint Tudor mansion on the better side of Beverly Hills with their only child, a daughter, upon whom they showered love and the best of everything.
As . . .
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February 11, 2008 12:02 AM EST --
My brother is looking for a house. A month ago, he handed me a picture of a beautifully restored Victorian for $850,000. He teased "Should I buy it?"
It was the house we grew up . . .
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February 25, 2007 11:16 AM EST --
Settled in the twilight of a bar, a friend and I got to talking about our parents. As we spoke of their unexpressed love and tolerance of each other, he told me of an ordinary man having an extraordinary . . .
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April 08, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Schultz glanced through the front door window to check things out before knocking. Just inside, the three-speed bicycle he had expected to see at the accident scene rested against the wooden rails of a . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
The resemblance was too close for coincidence, but it was not perfect.
Katie parted her hair on the left; the victim on the right. Katie was left handed and wore her watch on the right; the victim's . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
Schultz spoke with the business editor at the Tribune to get some background on Control Data Corporation. He learned that the company appeared from behind the cloak of a secret Navy project during World . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
A large naked man known as "Father of Waters" keeps an eye on the comings and goings of Minneapolis City Hall. He reclines on a granite pedestal in the rotunda where he coyly extends the large . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
Epilogue
On a morning in late October 1995, Schultz retrieved a frost hardened copy of the Star Tribune from his lawn. He poured a mug of coffee and settled to read by the light of a weak sun burning . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:57 AM EST --
Like so many Americans, I have fallen in and out of love with cars. I have experienced every emotion with cars from the beaming pride of a new purchase to the ache of junking an old friend. . . .
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