Category: Fiction
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From the diary of Liza-Jane
PROLOGUE August 31st 1886 in Charleston, South Carolina From the diary of Liza-Jane 2000 words 1 September 1886 I remember the exact time of day following supper in Charleston, South Carolina scarcely before the violent earth, tremor, and quakes erupted in the late summertime of 1886. There was sizable dismantlement of the city center reducing…
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GAUNTLET
Gauntlet By Janet-Alisa Ridout Charleston, South Carolina All Rights Reserved © 2013 First Edition Dedication For Jacob Epigraph Illustration (GANTLET -31 August 1886 -Ten-Mile, South Carolina-RR tracks buckle and contort- killing many passengers-The Southern Railroad passenger train collided head-on with a Northwestern Railroad passenger train around midnight during massive 7.3 quake. n.d.) Acknowledgments 30 March…
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Gantlet
Gantlet Prologue August 31st 1886 in Charleston, South Carolina I remember the exact time of day following supper in Charleston, South Carolina scarcely afore the violent earth tremor and quakes erupted in the late summertime of 1886. There was sizeable dismantlement of the city centre reducing the purview to a smashed apocalyptical sorting harkening times…
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D’Looris: A Story about a Black Bear
D’Looris *** LOORIS – The fair is on its way back to Corn County. The Corn County Agricultural Fair will be September 22 through September 26, 1991 at the Corn County Fairgrounds. The fairgrounds is located at 3200 Hwy. 701S, in Looris. Hours will be 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 1p.m.…
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Cabaret Catharsis
*** Sir Rory van Tory “Oh, bloody hell, Rory; I look like a lunatic. How do I ever get the glue to stick on the back of these homemade pasties you constructed when my nails are still wet? Electra stared helplessly at Rory with tears building up in her eyes ready to run down her…
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Electra’s Catharsis
07:17 PM 29/01/2013 Sir Rory van Tory “Oh, bloody hell, Rory; I look like a lunatic. How do I ever get the glue to stick on the back of these homemade pasties you constructed when my nails are still wet? Electra stared helplessly at Rory with tears building up in her eyes ready to run…
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Stories from South Ocean Boulevard: Birgitta Delagard is Missing
05:04 PM 29/01/2013 651 words/ 1 page One of Those Things Myrtle Beach, January 2008 Jason wakes to a crunching sound outside his window. Pulling his blankets over his head Jason groans to himself, “…not another person looking for her…please, go away…I don’t know where she is…” Jason’s ex-roommate left town a week ago not…
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Madame Begorrah’s Wine Cellar in Whitechapel
Scene opens in the Whitechapel District of modern day London against the backdrop of Madame Begorrah’s Gothic Wine Cellar Tavern; here we find Lola kneeling on angry knees in the throes of dope sick psychosis violently retching and wailing primal despair against the marble barrel vaulting defining the perimeter inside the wine cellar beneath Madame…
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Last of the Motor City Playboys
My busted out 1988 Chevy El Camino carried us from Hollywood, California to 8 Mile in Detroit, Michigan without doing its usual belching and farting and hissing and pitching… I wish. “She’s a raunchy beast of a car… I mean truck… I mean pick-up… what the hell is this damn thing, Rick? Is it a…
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[Untitled] Sir Rory Von Tory “Oh, bloody hell, Rory; I look like a bloody, mad lunatic. How do I ever get these bloody pasties to stick to me nips?” My words were crisp pronouncing nips with staccato precision. “Lola, Lola, Lola, you look bloody smashing, doll; you always have a bloody episode before going…
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Some Kid Just Assassinated My Voicemail
Vera’s LG Smartphone reverberated with techno relentlessly. She looked under the Sam Sorellie futon, in the soiled laundry hamper, she even checked the fridge, no phone. Who would call at 5:14am on a Saturday morning? “No one is up at 5am. My phone must be in my Drussekfurd bag.” Vera made three attempts to…
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Winter Pearmains and Chanel No. 5
Janet Ridout Epiphany #22 Poetry and England 4am Breakthrough (Kiteley) 30 November 2012 Exercise #22 is to locate five British poems, pick one line as a title, and then using your favourite lines from the four remaining poems integrate lines into a narrative about a character attempting to express a difficult thought to someone. (The…
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Fortune Cookies…
National University Fortune Cookie Soup Sandwiches in the Burkean Parlor A Term Paper Submitted to the Faculty of School of Arts and Sciences For the Partial Fulfillment of the Degree Requirements Of a Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing By Janet Alisa Ridout Copyright © 2012 by Janet Alisa Ridout All rights reserved. Abstract…
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Lola Catharsis Takes the Bloody Stage
Chapter I Bloody Fags “Oh, bloody hell, Rory; I look like a bloody, mad lunatic. How do I ever get these bloody pasties to stick to me nips?” Violet Catharsis pronounced nips with staccato precision. “Violet, Violet, Violet, you look bloody smashing, doll; you always have a bloody episode before a show. Then your bloody…
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The Road From Oxford
Modified:11/13/2012 10:50 PM 13 November 2012 I chose epiphany 184, Goodnight Colorado, for this week’s post. The concept is to collect a dozen or so unusual town names from across an English speaking country. Then write 400 words narrating travel or some adventure embarked upon including the towns in your story. The Road from Oxford…
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Ralph
Janet Ridout 24 November 2012 Ralph Times Square, 1984, Playland Peep Show “There’s no tellin’ what he’s got hidden underneath that skirt…” Sergio Papageorgio watched as a man pranced by in the lobby of Playland, the famous Times Square peep show. Maxine, a busty redhead, watched, as another man wearing a cheerleader skirt walked out…