Tag: Magical Realism
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The Crossed-Out God
Unpublished short fiction Tobias was born on a boat in the harbor. Back then there was just one God and God was the largest thing. Tobias’s grandfather was a boat captain, and the giant God was in the sea around them, but also in the sky and the birds and the boat. As a boy,…
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The Quilts
Unpublished short fiction The mother went from life to fetid squalor on the day the son turned ten. A short illness was expected, punctuated by certain inescapable death. The son believed her even then the villain of her own pestilent narcissism. But then death never came, and forty years on, he sits cheerlessly by her…
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TerrorZoo: Zoo of Horror
Unpublished novel. 63,293 words. (Three chapter sample.) 1. Sylvia The anteaters were eating her face. It was the worst day of her life. Or maybe it was the second worst, if we get technical about it. Even while the anteaters ate her face, she did get technical about it, because with so many anteaters on…
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We Are All Made of Water
Unpublished short fiction So my parents settled in tiny, flat Gulfwind, Florida, a sleepy town a hundred years past its booming industrial peak. They said they liked the sleepiness and the community and the proximity to my dad’s employer. Then I was born with a dark cloud over my head—an eight pound, eight ounce baby…
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Billy Beergut Drinks a Beer
Unpublished short fiction Billy Beergut threw another beer at the television. He drank some more beer, then threw that beer at the television, too. The cans bounced off and fell on the carpet. There were a lot of old cans on the carpet. The whole apartment smelled like beer. Billy Beergut had a beer gut and…