2009 story submission by Bob Ferguson My windows were down on a balmy August night. I’m ecstatic that my critique group finally liked something that I submitted. I had just left St. John’s Pub and was headed east on Lombard going home to the Couve to tell my wife of four decades, Karla about the [...]
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2009 story submission by “Ignatius and Myrna” (Josh Gross and Carly Nairn) No matter how many electricians were called in to address the problem, the lights had flickered in the news writer’s pit at CWBC for more than twenty years. People joked that it was the ghost of the former nightly news anchor Reed Bancroft, [...]
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2009 story submission by “Labruda” (Jon Labrousse) Tom couldn’t have chosen a less ideal day for the funeral. It was too hot out, for one, and too late in the day. To make matters worse, there was a construction crew, a group of short men in orange hard hats, tearing down a building at the [...]
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2009 story submission by Kim Crow 1. The monastic retreat in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains was meant to un-complicate my life. I booked a room at the hermitage of the Benedictine Brothers of The Five Wounds at the suggestion of my shrink. “Bernard,” he said, “Clear your mind. Get out of here for a [...]
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2009 story submission by “The Flowers” (Irene Chau, Maren Chau, Tiffany Lin, Jennifer Zhang) Like any other day, Carol Stripe rolled out of bed in the morning to freshen up for her job at the news station. Just as the clock struck five, she headed out the door wearing a crisp new suit, bursting at [...]
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