http://fictiondaily.org Good Stuff To Read In Places You Wouldn't Normally Look Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:10:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/110a87858b24797a9a8fdf0a8027d31a?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://fictiondaily.org http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/09/short-590/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/09/short-590/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:10:19 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5178 ]]> We sprint toward the bed, high on laugh-gas, slumber party glee.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/09/short-590/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/08/short-589/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/08/short-589/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:03 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5168 ]]> It tasted as pure as a spring, clean as a tap cooled by moss—he was impressed with those ideas—when a mountain of wave crashed down on his back with a sound of metal breaking.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/08/short-589/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/07/short-588/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/07/short-588/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:10:02 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5160 ]]> With arms of seatbelt wrapped around her waist, windshield eyes upon her face, keytapping in the ignition, the air vents whispering to the beat—she swirled and turned, dipped downand stretched up, wiggled and shook, finally loosening her hair.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/07/short-588/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/02/short-587/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/02/short-587/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:20:47 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5151 ]]> Like a trumpet aflare the shouts sharp burst up out from the shack, disturbing bees and beetles small with guts full of the dead. Scurry: now it comes.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/02/short-587/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/01/short-586/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/01/short-586/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:10:17 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5144 ]]> I never saw the garden, never saw the heart-struck lovers writing their names with wild rapture upon the walls of the Governor’s tomb.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/02/01/short-586/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/31/short-585/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/31/short-585/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:10:00 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5135 ]]> A squirrel nuzzled your foot, and a toad had found its way inside your open mouth.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/31/short-585/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/30/short-584/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/30/short-584/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:10:46 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5128 ]]> Some people had perfect nipples all the time being sucked on by supporting actors of varying degrees of accessibility.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/30/short-584/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/short-583/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/short-583/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:10:19 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5120 ]]> That night, the air between us is cruel.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/short-583/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/short-582/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/short-582/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:10:34 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5113 ]]> A little pain is good. It lets her know that her body is still there, attached to her mind by a thin thread, that there is still some give and take with the world.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/short-582/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/short-581/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/short-581/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:10:56 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5106 ]]> You’re just, well, listen—it’s hard to be beautiful when you’re a poet, he warns, you can’t have everything.

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