http://fictiondaily.org Good Stuff To Read In Places You Wouldn't Normally Look Tue, 01 May 2012 03:03:04 +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/2012/04/13/short-626/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/13/short-626/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:38:18 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5465 ]]> Metamorphoses happen even in modern times.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/13/short-626/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/12/short-625/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/12/short-625/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:10:30 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5455 ]]> Mom had fallen off a truss bridge drunk the sum­mer prior and no thing, small or large, would bring her back.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/12/short-625/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/11/short-624/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/11/short-624/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:10:20 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5448 ]]> Everywhere hummed the heat of overpopulation.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/11/short-624/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/10/short-623/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/10/short-623/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:50:36 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5440 ]]> He holds tighter, tighter, and then your loneliness gets small, smaller, smallest until it is a pinprick, an inverse star, a dust inside of you.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/10/short-623/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/09/short-622/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/09/short-622/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:55:26 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5435 ]]> I was tripping over my feet on some heavy analgesic, searching for a couch. 

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/09/short-622/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/06/short-621/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/06/short-621/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:10:16 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5427 ]]> You seem to really like Scandinavians.
]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/06/short-621/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/05/short-620/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/05/short-620/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:10:19 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5420 ]]> The water was cold, and when it reached our waists we wondered if maybe this was enough.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/05/short-620/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/03/short-619/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/03/short-619/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:05:40 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5413 ]]> Foucault was in a nearby aisle browsing through a rack of Hawaiian shirts and assorted pullovers.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/03/short-619/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/02/short-618/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/02/short-618/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:25:23 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5405 ]]> Next thing you know the King had me locked in a tower with orders to spin straw into gold.
]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/04/02/short-618/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/03/30/short-617/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/03/30/short-617/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:10:58 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5398 ]]> I had topped and pruned the fruit trees last fall on our half acre lot about a mile outside the murder capital. 

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