Category: Shorts/Archive
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Never Let Me Go
Nicholas was, by all means, an unstriking man. He was a twenty-six year old living in a small brick apartment in Barrytown Queens, with a girlfriend named Emma who studied Literature at the local college. On the weekdays she would go and work at an editor firm which she interned for, then head back and…
Jacob Robinson
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Can You Find It In Your Heart?
The Mooretown Valley Boy Scouts had a reputation throughout the past three decades of star-studded excellence. Producing the nation’s greatest number of Eagle Scouts, Mooretown was a well known – and very proud – organization. The troop had been around for a total of fifty years, with some families having entire generations who trained under…
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Anti-Dead
When I was about 9 years old, there was this kid in my afterschool program named Tem. I didn’t know him particularly well since he hung out with a completely different set of kids than I did, and he was in a grade below mine. The only stuff I really knew about him was that…
Jacob Robinson
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The Night Me and Your Mama Met
Excerpted from the Are You “Different”? collection. … Sometime in the summer of 2021 I was invited to a party at a beach mansion in Southern California. It placed me in an odd spot because I rarely received such invitations, and I even more rarely accepted them. What caused me to respond to this one…
Jacob Robinson
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The Great Watcher
Excerpted from the Are You “Different”? collection. … There’s a story that’s been passed down by native Indians up near Preston about The Great Watcher. It’s a revenant of sorts, a spirit which chases those who commit the vilest sins to their doom. It is said that, within those woods, The Great Watcher drives all…
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Grey Area
Excerpted from the Are You “Different”? collection. … Fox awoke from his bed in the morning. He checked his messages. | Call me. Now. It was from Serah. The abruptness of it all was enough to jolt him awake. Still under the blankets, he sent out a response. | what about? whats up? There was…
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Visions
Excerpted from the Are You “Different”? collection. … Katie plugged in her headphones and felt the bus lurch forward as the trip to the lodge began. Each winter break, her and a group of college friends would get together for a lodge trip. Their typical choice, the Fairweather Lodge, was decidedly not fair weather this…
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Sorry, We’re Closed
Excerpted from the Are You “Different”? collection. … There was something off about Mr. Ledbetter after his daughter died. It was more than the shakes. Visitors to the garage would comment on it whenever he grasped their ticket, asking if there was something wrong; his hands struggling to insert the ticket into the machine. In…