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Thomas M. McDade
Sep 115 min
Best Land Plans
I paid a goodbye visit to Windburn Barn figuring a bunch of college kids would have rented it by now, but there were no cars in the...
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Nico Bechis
Jul 3016 min
The Vault
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse. Please read at your own discretion.) The music...
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David Clear
May 299 min
Thus Spake Alan
“Insane? I was perfectly sane. I knew that the best place for a genius philosopher to hide out was an asylum. Switzerland, no less. Cool...
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John F. Miglio
Apr 3015 min
Killing Malice
My stepmother’s name was Alice, but I called her Malice because she haunted my childhood and was the evilest person I ever knew—and for...
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E.C. Traganas
Feb 299 min
Stone Castings
Herculaneum, 79 AD (Back in the 1980s, over three hundred carbonized skeletal remains were discovered submerged along the coastline of...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Feb 111 min
Leaving New Orleans
“This is my favorite part of the drive,” said Alberto. We were cruising over the 18-mile span of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, en route...
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Zach Keali’i Murphy
Dec 31, 20232 min
The Mallards of St. Catherine
Stewart came from a town where the water was abundant but never clean. Lillian came from a town where there wasn’t enough water to keep...
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Richard Lehan
Dec 15, 20239 min
Lipoma
1. Vin stood in front of the bathroom mirror studying the lump protruding from his left shoulder. Pinching it between his thumb and index...
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Kathleen Chamberlin
Dec 1, 202322 min
At the Corner of Humboldt and Spruce
There was something about the house at the corner of Humboldt and Spruce that gripped the imagination and drew the eye to it. It wasn't...
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Luisa Kay Reyes
Nov 1, 20237 min
Land of the Free
It was an ambush! John Ware and his South Carolina militia men had successfully defeated the well-armed redcoats at the bridge. But...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Aug 30, 202320 min
The Final Incarnation
Mellow, easygoing, that’s how Jamie’s friends and family described him. Some tied it to his frequent pot smoking. Others linked it to his...
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C.J. Anderson-Wu
Jul 27, 20237 min
Run, Run, Run Away, Come Again Another Day
Once a proud and majestic feline, I now spend most of my days curling up in the corner of a bombed-out building, trying to avoid the...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
Jun 5, 202315 min
Mesmer and the Flying Boy
By the expression Animal Magnetism I mean one of the universal operations of Nature, the action of which, when directed on our nerves,...
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Shawn Casselberry
May 10, 20234 min
Moon Mission
Corporal Maxwell had progressed faster than Space Force Sergeant Jackson had anticipated. In a few short months, he had already logged...
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Michael Fryd
Apr 28, 20239 min
Willow
I’ve lived five years next door to Ira Schwartz, but we never exchanged more than a brief hello. I stopped in to check on him a few...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Mar 30, 202319 min
Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
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Doug Dalglish
Feb 28, 202322 min
How It All Ends
(Note: occasionally, Story Sanctum will publish the first chapters of upcoming novels. Here is one from writer Doug Dalglish) Justo The...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
Jan 15, 202314 min
Where Can I Flee?
1 It was a cool fall evening, the sky gray and the air still. I tied the goldenrod with a blue ribbon and held it in my hand as I walked,...
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Shawn Casselberry
Dec 21, 20228 min
The Gospel According to Helga
Helga, a hard working waitress, has a lot to teach us about the true meaning of the holidays.
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