I started this website a year ago because I read somewhere that there were upwards of 400 million English blogs in the world and I wondered why I wasn’t one of them. (Actually, that’s not true – it had nothing to do with the number of blogs and I’m sure there are something like 450 [...]
Matchbook Stories
What happens when you about double the character count in a Twister? I don’t know. That sounds like nuclear physics. In the writing sense, however, you get a “matchbook story” – and apparently that’s what I’ve done. However, I don’t see any matchbook. Publishing a short story on a matchbook cover? That’s cool. Or it [...]
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T 5626
He told a joke and she said, That’s so lame, and then he got up and left and she watched as he walked away with that pronounced limp of his.
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T 5625
He answered his phone and she could hear the exasperation in his breathing and he said, I’m busy, and he hung up and then his life was over.
T 5624
I complimented her platform shoes and she said she had a clubfoot. I blamed my immaturity but she wasn’t buying it. Then I blamed my sexism.
T 5623
She spent the day watering his plants. He’d said, Make yourself at home. That evening he took note of her work. I need my space, he thought.
T 5622
I said sorry. She said, douche is French for shower. I said, I thought it was Polish for sausage. She gave me that look. I apologized again.
T 5621
He called her and said, I didn’t get it. Did you list ‘blogger’ as a job? she sighed. He felt humiliated. And tired. Did you? she demanded.
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T 5620
I ran over a squirrel. Dumbest squirrel ever, I lamented. My daughter started crying. Let this be a lesson, I said. I was winging it. Badly.
T 5619
Stray dogs circled their house. This is ominous, he told her. She opened the wine. They know, she said. Because soon the howling would begin.
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