Category: Short Stories
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The Headless Victims
Image by Couleur from Pixabay Quick update! The sequel to Headless, No Promises Large Enough is in the final stages. Really! And I have started on the third book of The Ghost and the Mask series, as well as this… The victims of the serial killer who is now known as the Kofu Head Collector*…
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Once, at a café
[Photo by Lily Banse on Unsplash] A middle-aged man with short, mostly gray hair, pulled up to the curb, got out of his car quickly, saying, “I’m so sorry” before his door had even shut. He passed me, looked directly at the young man sitting alone at the patio table next to mine, and said…
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Writer Battle and…Cookies!
The year is almost over. Again. They seem to be somewhat rapid fire lately. As I write this, I am craving cookies. I’ve been craving cookies all day. There are no cookies in my house. I am also riding the stationary bike as I write this. I know! Ridiculous! But this is something that I’ve…
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Akio’s Journal ~ April 4th
Akio Tsukino at his journal. Everyone thinks I’m stupid. Maybe I am. I try to cover it up with wisecracks and goofing around. But that just makes it worse. Maybe if I was deadly serious all the time. Like Masami. Maybe if I could just focus on my work and tune everyone else out like…
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The Kanji Test
The Kanji Test by Tristram Lowe The teacher handed Yoshio a two-page vocabulary test on the new kanji words they were learning. They were still fairly basic kanji as he was only 6 years old, and in grade two. He scanned the questions as the teacher moved on. He saw “door,” “summer,” “older brother,” “forest.” Cake.…
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