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Box of What You Need

January 22, 2010 in 299 Words, Death, Dinosaur, Family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Health, Illness, Parent, Short stories, Stories, Uncategorized, Very Short Novels, Writing | by | 17 comments

Dad has gone and left me with this box of I don’t know what. It has stood like a book on the cookbook shelf with undiscarded Yellow Pages and other worthless paper, Read the rest of this entry »

A Christmas Sort of Story

December 25, 2009 in 299 Words, Birth, Child, Childhood, Christmas, Family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Holiday, Parent, Religion, Very Short Novels, Writing | by | 8 comments

You are not an accident, little one. You were in my care even before you were born. You have a place inside me still and always will. I have big plans for you, little one, plans as grand as galaxies and as unfathomable, but they mean nothing. Read the rest of this entry »

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