The Butterfly Effect
/… finished mowing the yard of the two-story house he and his bride, Heather, had just purchased and took 36 seconds to sit on the front step to wipe his brow and admire the monarchs flirting with the…
By CraigE
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Perpetual Dad/Son
/… baby boy named Frederick was given to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phineas Freelander. Mom, Emilia, realized the maternal family rumors were true when her son was six–that’s when little Freddie began going around the cabin humming…
By CraigE
Read MoreYee Haw, Siddhartha!
/… the owner of Carter’s Auto Salvage, Danny Lee Carter, spiked his wife’s and two tot’s supper Coca-Colas with crushed-up Ambien tablets, then dragged their somnolent bodies from the…
By CraigE
Read MoreParse This!
/The story of a D+ Writer
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… lifetime of stringing paragraphs together, justified ones even, and not one character—in his case represented as a fictionalized person, letter…
By CraigE
Read MoreRandy Boyle’s Rule Of 4s
/… think people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are odd then consider the case of Randy Boyle. Going beyond the weirdness of doing everything in a…
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Read MoreA Writer’s Curse?
/…professor’s unabashed praise of Calvin’s “exceptionally florid storytelling style” compelled him to make the life and career-changing decision to go big time. He was sure that with his diploma in hand, and the polished talent it took to earn it, he would be a LaLaLand A-Lister in no time; besides, with the...
By CraigE
Read MoreJoe Ferguson’s Magic...
/…n debt Iowa farmer Joe Ferguson loved his firearms—had a custom made oak cabinet full of the pampered killers of various calibers and an arsenal of ammunition…
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Read MoreGrassy Ever After
/Based on a true story.
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...he never smoked it, Harry Musterman loved grass; the other kind—the monocotyledon herbaceous plants whose seeds were...
By CraigE
Read MoreDon’t Go Messin…
/A woman cures her.... .
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...early on with a deep-seated identity crises brought on by the general anxiety disorder gifted to her by a dysfunctional family, Janine Fetterman always felt more at ease...
By CraigE
Read MoreThe Tail of 3-Feathers
/A true tale
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...family is generally ambivalent about numbers: they seem irrelevant for measuring our ages and we don’t...
By CraigE
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