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I have 59 stories published in one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 126628 times and 51 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Barry Rachin

My stories

The Divined Comedy

Ava Frick reads Kierkegaard and drops the I Ching. The other day she got five broken lines __ __ and one solid ____. Not a good omen!
Cherry

Emergence

Nadia Rasmussen, the reference librarian at Brandenberg Public Library, just discovered that true love can be found at the Hoxie Feed and Grange just as easily as at the cheesy dating bars.

A Chinese Bar Mitzvah

Mr. Chen’s shiatsu has a level-three heart murmur. The widower lives on a fixed income. Ada Goldfarb’s son, Robert, is a veterinarian. Maybe they can work things out.
Cherry

No Bear, No Forest

Everything fourteen year old Lester McSweeney knows about life he learned from reading Louis L'Amour cowboy stories.
Story of the week

Call of the Beguiled

Cheryl doesn’t do well in social situations. The fourteen year old's best friend is Nicolena, a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. What else could go wrong?

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