Issue 9 55-Word Stories
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Beneath the Surface
She watched her muscles twitch, small flickers disturbing the skin surface like ripples on water.
Random, unprovoked, without beauty.
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My Father and His Son
Today was the first time that I really saw my father as old.
Never young, never gray, to me he was just “Dad”.
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Heard by the Beach on Lake Michigan in December
My father said to my mother “We are moving to Nebraska.”
She answered no, but we moved to Nebraska anyway!