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The Lady
There are already hundreds of stories, legends, and anecdotes out there about how, sometimes, getting what you want can be the worst thing to ever happen to you. This is not one of those. Getting what you want, what you … Continue reading
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Moon
My family volunteered for the moon depopulation program when I was nine. The newspapers compared it to Westward Expansion and a war crime all at once. We were refugees at the same time that we were pioneers. To me it … Continue reading
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Lost/Found
They tell me I lost my mind. Somewhere between the moons of Argos and Hotep, buried away in the freight hold, crushed between two boxes of dried proteins, I apparently went mad. They tell me they’re relieved I’m feeling better … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Creative, Creative Writing, Fantasy, Fiction, Flash, Flash Fiction, Insanity, Lost/Found, Robin Jeffrey, science fiction, Short Story
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Enough
A clacking behind me; I turn around. A young woman with a black backpack rolls towards me on a blue Razor scooter, her moss-green high-heeled boots pushing her along the cobbled path and through the cold sun of the first … Continue reading
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Peaches
When I put the first spoonful into my mouth, I started to cry. The sugar melted on my tongue and the sweet tartness of the juices made the roof of my mouth tingle. A teardrop reached the corner of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Creative, Creative Writing, Death, Fiction, Flash, Flash Fiction, Literary, Literature, Robin Jeffrey
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Wake Up
“Do you ever wake up and get annoyed that the world still exists?” David thought about the question, pressing the soggy flakes of his cereal under the milk with the tip of his spoon. At the other end of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Character, Creative, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary, Literature, Robin Jeffrey, Short Story, Wake Up, Writing
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Before the Dawn
The days were getting longer, the early morning sky streaked with dull sunlight when he rose now, the clouds like a pane of frosted glass through which the light struggled to shine. Henry folded the last of Stephanie’s clothes into … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Before the Dawn, Creative, Fiction, Flash, Flash Fiction, Literary, Robin Jeffrey, Romance, Short Story, Writing
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Movement
Moving is hard for writers. I think it’s hard for everyone, of course, but being a writer and moving presents a unique set of problems that I’m not sure everyone else experiences, or at least experiences to the same extent. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Authors, Creative, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary, Movement, Moving, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Robin Jeffrey, Short Story, Writers, Writing
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The Wild
I worry, at times, that Rapunzel exchanged one ivory tower for another; one with bigger windows and more staircases, but a tower nonetheless. I wonder, sometimes, how unhappy she really was, cast out into the wilderness, sheared and alone for … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Character, Creative, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Feminist theory, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Gender, gendered body, Grimm, Literary, nature, Philosophy, Rapunzel, Robin Jeffrey, Women's studies, Writing
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Measurements of Time
We were driving down to Oregon a week before Christmas, each contemplating what the move would mean for us, when the radio died. We hadn’t been listening to the radio; we’d brought a book full of CDs to while away … Continue reading
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