Issue 7 – 55-Word Stories
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OSCE
Smile and knock — enter when permitted.
Shaky and washing my hands.
“What brings you in today?”
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Just Fine
I worried…. despite her insistence that she was “just fine.” And now my heart aches with things unsaid.
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Dependable, Like the Tides
They come, in shifts— through side entrances, private doors…. most
wearing comfortable, expensive shoes, color-matched pants and tops
squeezing-in last minute family talk, world business…. on cell phones.
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Appalachian Apathy
“What will it do, kill me?”
Said a wearied coal miner
Who caught me eyeing the tobacco smoke
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