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Adventures with Freddy, Part 1

On July 27, 2019 By wastedpilgrimIn FictionLeave a comment

Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, July 17 2019, 1:15 p.m. I haven't written a short story in quite a while, so I decided to work on this one in installments. This fiction takes place in the not-too-distant future. The idea grew out of my increasing hatred of air travel. For twenty years, I flew in those …

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No Time to Travel

On September 5, 2014September 6, 2014 By wastedpilgrimIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

She was a tiny woman, skin tightly drawn around her face, remarkably unwrinkled yet somehow looking old, as if she spent a lot of time screaming to stretch it out. The fat man hoped to God she wasn’t sitting on his row. Once he had flown on an almost weekly basis, an average of fifty …

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