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Category: fiction

September 8, 2017 Chandala Stories and Poems / fiction / lyrics / poetry / short story

Child In the Field

American Success Story, Pete Chandala Act two, scene one, or chapter 3. In chapter one, American Success Story, Pete loses

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July 28, 2017 fiction / flash fiction / Notes From a Bum / short story

Jasper Townes

Jasper Townes by RJHoffman Jasper Townes’ face was red and his mind brimming as he took halting steps to the

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July 25, 2017 fiction / Notes From a Bum / short story

A View From a Pew

The seats in the church loft were boarded beds filled with human cages with makeshift heads. The cages clasped their

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July 19, 2017 fiction / Notes From a Bum / short story

Requiem For a Surgeon’s Son

Barry slows down and approaches the audi parked on the shoulder of the road with the driver’s door open. There

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July 14, 2017 fiction / Notes From a Bum / short story

The Controller

“Everyone likes Gwen,” exclaimed Marion, the accounts payable clerk. “I don’t know how anyone couldn’t like her. It would take

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January 17, 2017 fiction / lyrics / Metaphor / Notes From a Bum

When I See These Boots

All I think of when I see these boots is a hand full of dimes squeaking at me through the

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December 31, 2016 fiction / lyrics / poetry

While I Watched You Dying

While I watched you dying I drew a portrait of myself Years I was trapped gasping and crying and knowing

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December 18, 2016 fiction / lyrics / Metaphor / poetry / short short

The End Means the End

Head turned to what I hear got a heart full of iron hard as diamonds hiding in the leaves of

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December 17, 2016 art / fiction / lyrics / Notes From a Bum / poetry / short short / short story

Talking Can Be Virtue Too

“Talking can be love too,” said he who lives in a house where no one speaks unless spoken to. “Virtue,

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November 25, 2014 fiction / lyrics

The field Where We Lived Again

I see the field, feel it beneath my shoes as I run behind you, the scent of your hair in

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