Darkness so complete it erases all memories of light. I grow anxious. Am I blind? I try opening my eyes. But something feels wrong. I reach to touch my face, and the unworldly otherness that results is so overwhelming that I forget all about touching my eyes. Am I paralyzed? And blind? Where am I?… Continue reading Descartes’ Darkness
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The Dandelion and the Hammer
The patrol car hadn’t even come to a complete stop when the sheriff pushed open the door, and then, like a magic trick, he was out of the car and standing beside it, the flashing lights still running. His deputy reached past him and killed the engine. “Ain’t this something? What is this, Carl? The… Continue reading The Dandelion and the Hammer
Rock
Flash Fiction Challenge 100 – Day 50 My head spins under the hot Texas sun. I drop the rock. His blood on my hands, already tacky and drying. He had wanted my money. My money! What just happened to me? I cannot answer that question. Perhaps it was the accumulation of a thousand acts… Continue reading Rock
Stories by Shawn 