Posted on September 20, 2011 by writer
Subaru Stalker
by Erica Somes
“Kat, seriously, calm down, you’re overreacting, no one is trying to get you.”
“Molly, I’m not overreacting, I’m hiding in a windowless, public restroom at Wellington park and I’m afraid to open the door because he might be out there.”
“You should be more afraid of what you might catch if you touch the walls. I watched this 20/20 episode where they swabbed down public places like buses and hand railings and there was flesh eating bacteria, e.coli, staph, flu, cold viruses— You have imprisoned yourself in a suicidal safe-house.”
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Ruthless
By Team Bells
The embroidered pattern on the chair rubbed against the bottom of Thor’s thigh agitating a cut he got the night before in the tunnels. He focused instead on the voluptuous flesh spilling out of the red silk camisole he saw in front of him. Beads of sweat formed on his brow. Her breath on his ear felt wet and heavy. His heart pounded faster. A flicker of light sparkled just behind the lace curtains on the window.
Ruth whispered, “U-huh, u-huh, it’s hot.”
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Posted on September 20, 2011 by writer
Butterflies and Thunder
by Dora M. Raymaker
My mother named me Thor. Which clearly she regretted.
“Thor means ‘thunder.’ But the only thunder commin’ out of this one is a fart,” she would introduce me, slapping my shoulder with affection.
“No thunder in the Rose City,” my mouth would sound out, and everyone would laugh. Everyone except me of course. I never meant it as a joke.
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No Apocalypse in the Rose City
by Team Baldwin
Erik Petersen stepped out of the airport and surveyed his surroundings, hands on hips and with a sense of expectation. His red eyebrows nearly met in a frown as those expectations failed to be met. First of all, it had definitely been brighter inside the airport than it was outside, and it was three-thirty on a July afternoon. What sort of climate made such a thing possible?
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Marvel
by Laura Anderson
No one famous has ever come to Krypton Komik in the Rose City’s historic Mississippi District. We mostly get middle-aged collectors, graphic artists, and pre-teen jerks in our store. I like the collectors the most. The collectors don’t ogle my chest, like the graphic artist types sometimes do and the teenie-weenies always do, because they’re married and have daughters my age, I figure. One regular customer, Russell, reminds me of my dad; not my dad as he is now, more like, the way he was before mom died four years ago.
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