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• The Unfortunate Event of a Fart

  Published: November 20, 2006, 6:32 am

  Tags: Humour, Short, Fart, Work, Short Stories, Life, Stories, Literature, Farts, Farting, Short Story

  I wake to find the sun shining, brighter than I had ever seen it shine before. My day started off all right, but soon became a little stranger than normal. After breakfast I started to have pains in my stomach. I know what sort of pains they were. As I had had a lot of curry last night if you know what I mean.I stepped out the door, it got worse,

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• Short Story: Why Is It Weird When Your Boyfriend Is Not As Tall As You Are?

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Bauer Giffin, Short Story, Sophie Dahl

  In today's Guardian, Zoe Williams writes about tall women and short men. "There are all sorts of inequalities within relationships," argues Williams, "but nothing so unfailingly tickles the world as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Freaky Friday's Tales of the Supernatural

  Published: September 29, 2007, 7:49 am

  Tags: Short Story, Custer Hill, Freaky Friday, General Custer, Indigo Light, Memes, Riley Kansas, Short Story

  door to protect me for the short few minutes she was gone. We lived on the 2nd floor in this building. When she came back she saw something that changed my bond with my great mom forever. I had a little red wagon I played with that was made of wood and steel (a real kid’s wagon from the old days). She saw me hanging over the interior

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• The untimely death of the short story

  Published: October 3, 2007, 7:23 am

  Tags: Flash Fiction, Short Story

  you just fart? and Is the short story dead?There does seem to be a growing attitude that the short story is something an author moves through a step up from the angst-ridden poems of their plooky youth on their way to churning out the next great British/American/(enter your own country here) novel.I wrote two-and-a-bit novels before I

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• The Freaky Morbid Spider

  Published: October 6, 2007, 9:19 am

  Tags: Short Story, Back Of My Neck, Brown Recluse Spider, Dead Flesh, Encrusted, Rotting Flesh, Scab, Short Story, Spiders, Toxic Venom

  Please don’t let this story get under your skin. This is the lighthearted, macabre story of our little friend, the Brown Recluse spider. I could feel it crawling on me. It’s tiny legs tickling with every shift in it’s movement. I began crying, “Please get it off me!” The Brown Recluse spider has long been the

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• Halloween Blood Feast

  Published: October 31, 2007, 2:59 am

  Tags: Horror Stories, Short Story, Black Candle, Evil, Halloween, Horror, Lacerations, Power Of Evil, Terror

  I was extremely apprehensive about revealing this horrible element from my past, but I must tell the world because it is killing me inside. Halloween is upon us and is the perfect time. I am deeply ashamed of what happened that night, when my friends and I gathered for something that scorched lacerations of blackened hellishness within the very

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• Trick or Kaboom!!

  Published: October 31, 2007, 8:09 pm

  Tags: Literary Mania, Sf Reader, The Next Big Writer, Cancer, First Steps, Claire Is Going Overboard Now, Milestones, Poetry, Lulu Self Publishing, Horror, Charity Anthology, Short Story, Fifth Anniversary, Ghost Stories, My Baby Genius

  way, with the fireworks in short supply. There has been an attempt to crack down on the cross-border trade, so maybe that’s having an impact. Of course, it could be different down you’re way and perhaps you’re reading this while your teeth are being loosened by nearby explosions. So, in the true spirit of Halloween (witness

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• Psychedelic Psychoses

  Published: November 24, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: Short Story, Grain Alcohol, Hearing Voices, Home Surgery, Jungle Juice, Lobotomy, Luminescence, Psychoses, Shrooms

  kidding, but the following story is true. I must share it with you. Psychedelic Psychoses I went to hang out with some friends one summer in high school, just to have fun and hang out. They made a big batch of jungle juice (punch mixed with lots of 190 proof grain alcohol) so us kids could get drunk and get a head start on pickling our livers.

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• shameless self promotion

  Published: December 20, 2007, 11:00 pm

  Tags: A Matter Of Attention, Short Story By Torrance Stephens, Butterbrown, Torrance Stephens

  Yo, Sat Dec 22 is my birthday. So happy birth day to me. And I'm selecting these two books to sale in honor of myself for the holiday. So yawl support your folk, and tell all yawl know via smoke signal, email or word of mouth to do the same. Thanks. And happy napy birth day shouts to:Femigog and my girl Emmanuelle Elie (Dec 21).Support

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• An Agoraphobe in the 90's

  Published: January 9, 2008, 1:56 am

  Tags: Miranda July, Short Story, Agoraphobes

  I've begun to write a short story, this short story is a tale of an agoraphobe in the mid 90's as the title of this blog would suggest. I've only written an intro and hope to continue it here, like a serial or something. The story is heavily influenced by Miranda July's book of stories, I've found I'm in love with that woman's writing style.

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• Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - A Review

  Published: November 6, 2007, 7:53 am

  Tags: Review, P Author, Rip Challenge, Short Story

  begins telling him a story. During certain parts of the story, the two begin hearing noises that reflect the events of the book. Essentially in a Poe story, if someone suffers from catalepsy and dies, he probably isn't dead. She finally appears to the two, she dies, Usher dies of fright, and the narrator flees the house. As he leaves, the

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• Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Part 1)

  Published: September 9, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Short Story Sunday, P Author, Rip Challenge, Short Story

  go about blogging for these short stories yet. Because I want to remember the individual stories as I do with a book, I guess I'll just make a record each time I read a few (I'm going for 3 a week so I can finish this month) and then give a regular review of the book as a whole? Whatever-- Oh ya, I'm not sure how to talk about a 10 pages story

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• Stairs

  Published: October 19, 2007, 8:35 am

  Tags: Secrets, Random, Short Story

  He couldn't climb the stairs as well as he used to. Not since the accident. It still haunts his dreams, the images of crumpled metal and flowing blood. He was planning to sell his fourth storey apartment, as the effort was too much for him. Even though the accident was so many years ago, he was not getting any stronger. In fact, he was getting

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• Killing Old Hag

  Published: January 15, 2008, 1:01 am

  Tags: Horror Stories, Short Story, Black Blood, Bobby Revell, Heart Flutters, Nomadism, Old Hag, Revellian, Transparent Skin, Varicose Veins, Wicked Intentions

  in the writing of this story. BTW- This is an excerpt from one of two books I’ve been writing for over two years. It’s 1st person horror which makes it that much more disturbing. Remember, it’s just fiction…muah hahaha! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works

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• Short story competition - judges comments

  Published: January 16, 2008, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Short Story, Poetry, Quick Tip, Short Story Tip, Tip Of The Week, Writing Tip

  judged the 2007 Bridport short story competition. She was given a longlist (doesn't say how long) culled by Bridport readers from the thousands of entries. She has some interesting comments to make on the type stories she received and the flaws she noticed.Certain themes recurred with almost monotonous regularity: aging and problems with

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