Chords in the Dark

29Oct09

The strike of midnight told her that the lights outside her window would intensify. The stillness of the night and the glow of The City and the pollution would mix until the whole of her world became a static pulse of neon and halogen. When you lived in the center of sprawling megalopolis like The [...]

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Tags: Miranda Curtis, Stephen Dolmer

Worn

28Oct09

It had been worn by 35 women on 36 happy occasions. (One woman wore it again for a vow renewal.) It showed just the tiniest signs of use. A loose thread here, a cake stain there. It was the gown that had lasted the longest of all the apparel that Susan Kitsman rented out of [...]

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Tags: Kitsman's Bridal, Rodger David Nolans, Susan Kitsman

Standards and Practices

27Oct09

There was a frost in the air that morning. The morning that the worst cold front in the history of The City blew in. A cold front that would freeze the very heart of The City and curtail the stray pet and homeless populations nearly to extinction. None of which compared to the bitter chill [...]

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Tags: 28 Cold Front, Duncan Mcalvayne, Rhonda Augusta

The Long Walk Home

22Oct09

The sign read Filthy Restrooms. Truth in advertising or fair warning? The ramshackle gas n’ go style station also featured an audacious sign proclaiming ’self-service’, whatever that meant. Undaunted, but curious, I approached the restroom door. I had no intention of utilizing the facilities of this borderland, southern Arizona hell-hole, but the facts of the [...]

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