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I have 36 stories published in
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My stories have been read 12158 times
and 8 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Carrie Bruce
My stories
Crick
‘Hush your mouth,’ Mama said, wielding a wooden spoon, ‘the word is creek.’ But Mama creek is the dying sound of that which is already dead. Creek is...
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Life's Soup
My mother cut a piece of meat from her arm. Tears poured from her face and blood spilled on the floor. My mother took her flesh and put it in the...
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The Dolls
1 With her last will and testament my aunt left me a china doll with hair of golden curl and baby blue eyes. 2 As a child she was locked away behind...
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From the Sun’s Rays
I was young, when I roamed the dance school’s halls in white socks, where music lingered in the corners, seeping into cracks in the wood floor, to...
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Leaving Mia
for Jenni Schaefer She was a cruel mistress, who lived at the back of my throat, who stung my tonsils and stained my tongue, who pushed my head down...
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