MistakenMagic
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 660221 times
and 104 of my stories have been cherry picked.
3 of my 3,053 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes
My stories
Notes on a Long-Haul Flight
Bucharest is a spider's web heavy with dew. It mirrors the sky; a black expanse littered with glass, the blight mark of a fallen chandelier. A cracked wind-shield.
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My Family and Other Animals
Most mornings I wake at dawn. My sister snores opposite me in the double bed she claimed. "But I sleep diagonally!" "That's not a disability." There's no reasoning with some people.
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On Leaving
I am not as sentimental as I used to be. Like waiting for a delayed train, I teeter on the edge of the week, wondering if the freight load of feeling will ever arrive.
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Espresso Martini
"a triangle of black ice with an archipelago of coffee beans dotted across its thin layer of cream. A small miracle of vodka and coffee combined - I hold it aloft like the Holy Grail."
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Requiem
It hits me every time I come back: the smell of his soap in the bathroom.
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