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Dogs on a Boat | flash fry fiction
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Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. Dogs on a Boat. When I finally get a paw through the hole I’ve torn in the box, I tear open the bottom of the food bag and spill pellets across the floor. I have never tasted food so sweet. My body trembles in pleasure and I swallow as much food as my body can take. Within minutes, I’m curled up on the floor and asleep. The next day, Other Dog startles a bird and the bird make...
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Gamze | flash fry fiction
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Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. She is asking where is your family, said the doctor, checking John’s temperature with the back of his dark freckled hand against John’s sweaty forehead. Do you speak any Turkish? Not much, he admitted, wiping away the sweat. Turkey was a much warmer country than he expected. But I brought a guidebook. Tell her I’ve got no family. It’s just me. John tried out his Turkish accent...
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A Thieving Life | flash fry fiction
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Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. The first time I stole, some time around age eleven, I stole a candy bar from the grocery store. Snickers, in case you were wondering. It had melted by the time I felt safe enough to enjoy my pilfered treat, hiding in the enclosed slide of a nearby playground. I’d never tasted anything so delicious. Next, in junior high, it was a pack of gum. What was I supposed to do? I stole...
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Tragedy in a Cable Car | flash fry fiction
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Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. Tragedy in a Cable Car. Tom and Sharon were on their honeymoon and madly in love. Emily and her daughter, Kelsey, were taking this sight-seeing tour while the father and brother of the family were still at the resort. Emre was a college student on summer vacation. Josephine was an older woman come to visit the city where her parents met, long ago. They waited patiently, nervou...
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Warren’s Retribution | flash fry fiction
https://flashfry.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/retribution
Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. Forty-six people kidnapped in one smooth operation. They gassed a subway train, then took them all right out of Edward Station. Holding them for ransom, they sent us a message online, asking for a million each, threatening to kill if we weren’t careful with our time. In one hour, said the masked men, the killing will begin. Does this seem familiar, Captain Warren? Our hour was...
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Two Roads Diverged… | hairsprayandhemingway
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Adventures in literature, beauty, and life…Hairspray and Hemingway. Two Roads Diverged…. Have you ever been both supremely happy and sad at exactly the same time? Have you ever looked around while everyone around you is talking, clinking glasses, laughing, smilingand you know that things will never be the same, that this very moment is the turn in the road and no one knows it but you? It’s such a conflict: celebrating and yet, knowing that it is also a goodbye. It’s something bittersweet. A time of m...
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chrispresso | flash fry fiction
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Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. Author Archives for chrispresso. Fill in noun adjective stories jokes. My feel a cold sinking just before i fall asleep. How to know if someone is fake crying. August 25, 2012. She is asking where is your family, said the doctor, checking John’s temperature with the back of his dark freckled hand against John’s sweaty forehead. Do you speak any Turkish? John laughed. How d...
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The Lonely Willow Tree | flash fry fiction
https://flashfry.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-lonely-willow-tree
Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. The Lonely Willow Tree. Inspired by: “ The Lonely Willow Tree. 8221; a 17th century ballad. That night, we sat beneath the willow tree near the sea, close enough to the cliff-edge that the mist of the crashing waves below made the campfire sizzle. Martin, the camp leader, cleared his throat and began the evening’s scary story. I asked, my voice cracking. He walked to the cliff...
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Mary’s Little Lamb | flash fry fiction
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Stories from the mind of Chris Fryer. The Lonely Willow Tree. Get new story updates in your e-mail. Just click this fancy button. Mary’s Little Lamb. Mary kissed the lamb on the top of her fluffy white head, then sent her back into the barn with the other animals. Welcome back, said the lamb’s mother, the ewe. She sniffed her child’s chalky, dirty fleece and sneezed. Where did she take you? To her school, replied the lamb with a yawn. It was so fun to laugh and play with the other children. Yes While you...
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