Category: Other Stories
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“Happy Life”
Fiction. 1 minute to read. All I can think about is a life with you. Laughter in a room painted blue and white, the clouds and sky that make our strong roof. Maybe a dog that goes “woof.” Baby in your arms, cradled, warm grass under a fig tree. I hope that’s a life God…
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“Kaleidoscope Cars”
Fiction. 1 minute to read. Your Sweatshirt cupped over my nose smells like Bounty mixed with Rose. If I could, I’d drink it up like Dramamine and fly kaleidoscope cars through your perfect little toes. I think paradise is lost in dreams, and that’s cruel, the way they tease. Sometimes I’m chased from sleep so…
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“The Last Farmer On Callisto”
Fiction. 5 minutes to read. The days before Callisto’s destruction were pleasantly warm, and i spent them farming under a leafy chandelier, among the fruit-bearing trees, picking, eating, swallowing their seeds before bathing in a bottomless pool: indulgence from sun-up to the twilight moon. By nightfall, the air became cool. I slept in the shelter…
Austin Treat
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“The New Hands”
Fiction. 15 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…
Austin Treat
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