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Burglary Down East
Fiction. Two drifters roll into a small lake town in southern Maine, looking to score some easy cash off the locals. 20-30 minutes to read. Originally published at Dark Yonder Magazine, 2023 (see Publications page). Burglary Down East By Austin Treat Just last week, they ripped off a blue hair who thought they were charming…
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“Her Life Book”
Fiction. 5 minutes to read. She splashed water on the page to see through it. She liked knowing the future, to make life temporarily transparent. Fragments of sentences. The suffix of a word. Little glimpses of what came next without having to turn the page. ~ The book was pocket sized and bound in leather.…
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“Natalie’s New Hands”
Fiction. 20 minutes to read. The hands were a gift from her mother. They came in a box with a man to install them. She followed him upstairs to her second floor bedroom. He used a box cutter. A personal choice, since he could’ve used his bare hands to peel the tape off easily. He…
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“Easy Street”
Fiction. 5 minutes to read. Mary, Mother of God, All she wanted from Man, her second husband, was honesty, “hot coal white lies burn faster than gasoline.” Without money to feed her children, she had nothing, running to Laocoon, telling his children, “be honest,” loquacious until he leaves. In the end, justice only leads to…
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“Cash Only”
Fiction. 20 minutes to read. A hilarious satire on homelessness in Los Angeles and John Rawls’ theory of Justice as Fairness.
Austin Treat
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“Our First Thanksgiving On Earth”
Fiction. 6 minutes to read. A sexy science fiction holiday special.
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“Coke Bottles Over Golan”
Fiction. 5 minutes to read. “It was humid and stuffy inside the Magach tank that sat on the ridge of Golan Heights, where rocky hills separate Israel from Syria. Abraham sat beside me, cleaning dust off his specs with a piece of cloth; they were thick as Coke bottles. Command said we’d have no air…
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“It’s Deadly to be Trans in America”
Essay. 20 minutes to read. Ten black transwomen were killed in the first six months of 2019. Compared to nine fatalities in Afghanistan, it was more deadly to be black and trans in America this Spring than a US soldier fighting in Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. The death toll reflects a 17% overall spike in reported…
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“Mask Of Mano”
Fiction. 5 minutes to read. “The mask made me do it,” said the young Liberian. He was tall for his age, slouching his sweat-glazed head to his chest as he stood in the musky odor of the hut. Incense and blood tickled his nose. The boy shuffled forward, his barefeet padding softly against the arid…
Austin Treat
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