Category: Ink Blots

Christmas is For Giving

November 25, 2019

By Darlene Shuya Peggy’s mother was having a very sad day. Peggy wanted to cheer up her mother. It was two days before Christmas; Peggy, aged six, was shopping with her Aunt May for a Christmas present for Peggy’s mother. All the other children Peggy’s age were waiting anxiously to see what they would get […]

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Three Minutes of the Condor

September 30, 2019

By Audrey Gauthier The low-slung red Mazda convertible eased out of the Best Western Plus parking lot and into the outskirts of Fort Bragg. Although it was 9:30 in the morning, the California sun, in late August, felt hot and direct. Earlier that morning, the weatherman on the hotel breakfast room television had promised a […]

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Starry Night

August 30, 2019

Here I go again, wearing flannel pyjamas in August, covered by my terry-cloth bathrobe and wrapped in a blanket, lying on the wet grass and looking up into the night sky. I was able to stumble along in the darkened yard without tripping or bumping into anything along the way, before positioning myself in the […]

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Humiliation

June 13, 2019

by Wayne Nylin Though the toilets in the far end of each section of the basement (boys to the right, girls to the left) were hidden by a wooden partition, the sharp tang of pine tar gave their location away. Often there’d be a high school kid or two down there throwing a ball around […]

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