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Category: Short Stories

The Change

Posted on December 15, 2005July 10, 2019 by Laura

An Homage to Kafka, Jurassic Park, and M*A*S*H Below the brilliant red-orange cliffs of iron-rich volcanic rock in the Utah desert, a renowned paleontologist, suspended by a harness in the mouth of an old mineshaft, draws his brush over the tiny point of fossilized bone sticking out of the wall. Oily sweat beads on his…

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A Christmas Story

Posted on December 8, 2005October 14, 2020 by Laura

My Exegesis of the Holiday Frenzy So there’s this rich guy. He wears a suit, barks out orders to many underlings, and takes home the equivalent of a small country’s gross national product in pay and stock options—which he will dump at the merest whisper of trouble and allow his underlings to absorb the crash—but…

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Backup

Posted on December 1, 2005June 23, 2019 by Laura

As she hunkered down under the dusty workbench, Officer Gillian Snow heard the far-off footsteps of a man who was coming to kill her. In what seemed like hours but in fact was less than 15 minutes ago, she had emptied the magazine of her department-issue Beretta 9mm at an attacker who had ambushed her…

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Protected: Rising Waters

Posted on November 10, 2005October 24, 2020 by Laura

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