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Jin Kee 19 March 2009

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Teri Tailor was proud to have once been an ice road trucker. Turns out she’d gotten a BA from University of Alaska Fairbanks and then worked in the energy sector, first at the Gene Wescott Hydrogen Plant in Akutan for a year, later at an Alaskan oil operation for a few years until she got bored of it. She was too ( Read more... )

You know how you had that little enamel bird in a golden cage that you used to teethe on as a baby, and when Roee brought all your jewelry you asked her where she put it and she shrugged like she’d probably sold it ( Read more... )

A mermaid is unable to help a diver - he is hopelessly stuck.

The diver is tangled in a fishing net. The dive knife is gone. The air gauge and dive computer are in the red. There's no way to return to the surface. The diver erases a slate and writes "WILL IT HURT?"

The mermaid writes "I'm sorry. Yes it will, but it will be quick."

The diver erases ( Read more... )

Here is a short story that I wrote in high school.

2400hrs

And time stops.

The entry on the monitor flips over from "Boarding 2400" to "Departed" and I know it is over. I know that I've spent twenty four hours chasing a ghost to Gate 14. I know I'll never know the answers to my questions, never get a letter in the mail, never get a call on the ( Read more... )

Had a dream last night I can only describe as a Lovecraftian John Hughes Movie as written by Clive Barker.

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I loved her, and she had loved me.

For ten years she batted me awake with her paw, purred in my lap, sharpened her claws on my leg.

The ones who bit me were not kind. They ate my tongue. Left me with one arm and no fingers, ragged strips of gristle below the waist.

Hell did not take me, so I didn’t die.

She hunted for me. Kept the hunger at bay ( Read more... )

The Endless Day ( Read more... )