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King David

2025-08-13 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider Leave a comment

From up above, from a rooftop, or an upper window, they could be dancing. The hip hop thumps from the

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Beasts of Burden

2025-07-14 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider 2 comments

by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses

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The Apartment

2025-05-14 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider 4 comments

by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his

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Elephant March

2025-04-22 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and

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The Monsoon

2017-09-26 John Mulhouse Fiction 3 comments

The war was almost over but we didn’t know it yet. I was still in bed. It was dark, but

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Independence Day

2017-04-17 John Mulhouse Fiction One comment

It was the middle of the morning on the Fourth of July and the rain was pounding down. Dirty, gray

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