Someone who looks exactly like you approaches you on a city street, wearing a look of sheer terror. Thrusting a piece of paper into your hand, your doppelganger says “Find Luka. Tell him all pathways lead here. All of our worlds depend on it” and shoves you into a nearby alley. Your doppelganger runs off …
You pass a restaurant and see, through the window, your best friend’s husband having a clearly romantic rendezvous with another woman. Describe the scene, your feelings, and what you decide to do. Does he see you? Are you surprised, shocked, disappointed, vindicated?
You are at a museum to see a famous artist’s exhibit. Urban legend claims that this artist was a powerful sorcerer who captured the souls of his subjects within the paintings. While looking at one of his pieces, the subject in the portrait asks you for help.
KATE Now maybe I’m making too much of something that’s nothing more than a coincidence but it seems to me that moral standards In America declined in direct proportion to the demise of the milkman. Not that I think the Milkman was the actual reason for those peaceful, carefree days. He was a symbol, a …
DANA He always left his underwear on the floor. Not in one spot either. He’d scatter it around the bedroom like some sort of boundary: near the bed, by the hamper, in front of the bathroom door. It reminded me of a dog pissing on trees around his yard. His cologne was everywhere. He would …
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I’ve been writing for so long that pen, paper, and typewriter have all done their time as my favorite tools (or weapons, or accomplices) and there’s no point in denying my love affair with my Lenovo. My favorite place to write will always be the writing nook I’ve managed to carve out of the master …
