Tag: fiction
group name: utopianfict
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May 07, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
University
We are told that our project was named University because our purpose is to facilitate a universe of possibilities. University started as one of those possibilities, a project conceived . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
Walter's gaze settled on the playing children as he rocked in his porch chair, sipping lemonade. They know nothing of Before, he mused, and wondered if that was a good thing.
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May 29, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
Impatiently I waited for the lights to change, tapping at the steering wheel. The yellow Chevrolet behind me honked.
It had been raining intermittently for 3 days. I felt my car lurching. The yellow . . .
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February 08, 2009 04:49 PM EST --
In an effort to jumpstart this old utopian flash fiction project, I propose a challenge. If it results in stories, I will propose others. [the results are the reward]
flash fiction . . .
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May 07, 2006 10:20 PM EDT --
We met at Sanctuary.
She was coming off a bum relationship with a man. I was coming off a bum relationship with a drug that had ruled my life to the point that I had none left.
Sanctuary was cool. . . .
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May 07, 2006 10:37 PM EDT --
Friendship.com
Yeah, so, maybe I ain't pretty. And I don't act so pretty either. I got issues. Like Borderline Personality issues. People don't so much take to me. . . .
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October 19, 2007 06:20 PM EDT --
I was sitting in the hammock tossing back a brew the day the snail rebellion began.
The snails were almost to my trailer stairs before I noticed . . .
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August 06, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
If Adam looks the guy in the face and shrugs, “I don’t know his name, dude,” then no one knows him.
Every other day, he walks into the camping store, itching his grimy scalp with long . . .
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March 01, 2009 08:49 AM EST --
Light
A few colorful lights are stuck in his eyes. He splashes a few wet tears in there. Lights linger. Their color disseminate from the edges. A transmutation of the glowing haze. . . .
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June 17, 2009 10:27 PM EDT --
Her blood rained, like droplets, on an unchanging spot. Beside her bed. Accumulated. Drop by drop. Every drop. Except the first one.
He closed his palm, felt the warmth of the first droplet with . . .
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February 18, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
Whoops !
I told you not to say that.
Sorry.
So.
So, what?
So, what made you say "Whoops?"
According to my calculations, we entered normal space too close to that . . .
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October 18, 2009 03:39 PM EDT --
“We’re out of time”, he said while speeding down the hallway in his car.
He was a rich man. His rooms were renowned for being too spacious. His kitchen had a garden to its . . .
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August 22, 2008 01:12 AM EDT --
Here I am again, going public with a bit more of a project I have been musing over for quite some time. This is from draft one (the only one so far) of a leisurely developing novel and personal experiment. . . .
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February 29, 2008 08:20 PM EST --
A pretty much true story.
"What the hell." Squirelly said to himself, "There's nothing else to do." So he called up Jim and got out the John boat. The sun was hot, the beer . . .
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May 04, 2008 09:52 PM EDT --
He had made a small hut beside the sea. On days of the tide, the sea would stretch to the place his home was. He had made two doors on the opposite sides of the wall - one from which the sea came in; the . . .
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September 14, 2008 03:03 PM EDT --
Tushi was a cat who could have been an ocean.
She could have been other things as well like – a blanket that smelled of warmth, a puddle in your green yards, a broken wristwatch, a collage of photographs . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:08 AM EST --
I have a frozen rain in a glass jar. A regiment of raindrops. Carefully synchronized. The droplets are always in the state of falling. So that the rain goes on forever.
I often step into the glass. . . .
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August 10, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
Despite the church address typo, cancelled catering, and tacky Elvis impersonator acting as D.J., Mat and Aubrey married each other yesterday with bursting hearts and twinkling eyes. Love ruled. . . .
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September 22, 2007 08:30 PM EDT --
World News Magazine, March 23: Is Mars colonization finally on the horizon?
Today, NASA issued its broad-ranging Request For Proposal #2134-D: Colonizing Mars. . . .
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May 01, 2008 10:12 PM EDT --
Crippling on the recurring times, he left. Not aware of the song that she was playing. These days he had come to believe that there was nothing wrong with his leg. Must have been a growing tumor in his . . .
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