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Manners

Pud was born into the school. His grandfather had founded it, bought the old thieves’ den up the lake in what was still farmland and hammered out a cinder block and sheet metal haven of education.

Mary B Sellers 11/11/24 Mary B Sellers 11/11/24

At a Loss

Dry wood floor the colour of gravy and a climbing wall.

Mary B Sellers 10/21/24 Mary B Sellers 10/21/24

Three micros

Oh gosh, it was an observation, my friend Shadow’s wife Wanda said, not an insult.

Mary B Sellers 10/4/24 Mary B Sellers 10/4/24

the block

Any time I find myself in a Block I start trying doors.

Mary B Sellers 9/23/24 Mary B Sellers 9/23/24

Catch and release: life lessons from a bad date

Grimacing, she eyes the reddish liquid in the shot glass. “What’s this?”

Mary B Sellers 9/13/24 Mary B Sellers 9/13/24

Flash Fictions

The aquarium's Angelfish Investors saw no need to step in when energy prices geysered, dressing up their own worries – as gulf-weed occluded pristine commercial goals elsewhere in their portfolio – as aggressive disappointment in the aquarium’s manager Mica.