Sunday, December 12, 2010

13 stories, 78 words

One slap, she shut up forever.
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Midnight, raining; broke, he caved in.
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Her champion:  money, adoration, promises forgotten.
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Misery shouted whispers under keen ears.
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Unseemly?  Half my age?  My daughter!
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No ring, I see.  Remove mine.
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Family habit.  Whiskey sours.  Sour sons.
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Done lyin’.  Debt, foreclosure:  other wife.
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Never said you were my child.
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Just got mad.  Moses, Cain, myself.
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Finally, lakeside peace.  Dad frenzies bottom-feeders.
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How could I?  Whiskey, son, whiskey.
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Six-word story’s what did him in.

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