Short Stories
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She shouldn’t be doing this. Bright Life consultants haven’t done door-to-door sales since the early 2010s. Social media has made building a network so much easier than it was when Michelle’s mother started selling in the 90s. The company advises against door-to-door sales. It isn’t safe. Especially for a thirty-three-year-old woman with no family at
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Anyone who knows me is aware I do not like winter. I don’t like to be cold. I can’t sleep, have know energy, and just generally can’t get myself to function as a normal human. Then there’s the daylight, or lack of it. As soon as the sun sets, my brain tells me the day
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This story was written for a creative writing class in college. I have wanted to turn it into a short story series for a while now. Jessie crept slowly through the cornfield behind the old farmhouse. She was careful not to alert the hounds standing guard on the porch. At the edge of the field,
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