http://fictiondaily.org Good Stuff To Read In Places You Wouldn't Normally Look Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:12:09 +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/2012/01/27/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/2012/01/27/long-578/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/long-578/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:05:03 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5125 ]]> In only six months and twenty-eight days I’ll be in a position to retire. 

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/long-578/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/genre-569/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/genre-569/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:00:41 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5122 ]]> Peter jerked his head back, dodging dirt his mother threw from the garden below.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/27/genre-569/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/2012/01/26/long-577/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/long-577/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:05:34 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5118 ]]> I had tightened the last screws as the skin finally dried, and then finished, the end.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/long-577/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/genre-568/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/genre-568/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:30 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5115 ]]> The Blonde Ghost drifted into Dr. Grayface’s lab, phasing through an alloy wall.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/26/genre-568/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.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/short-581/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/long-576/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/long-576/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:05:18 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5110 ]]> Former Farmer James had a potato in his head almost the size of a normal human brain.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/long-576/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/genre-567/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/genre-567/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:25 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5108 ]]> Things began to look a bit grim the day me cock fell off.

]]> http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/25/genre-567/feed/ 0 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/24/short-580/ http://fictiondaily.org/2012/01/24/short-580/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:10:39 +0000 davidbacker http://fictiondaily.org/?p=5097 ]]> I started thinking of prettiness as me.

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