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No Hesitation
by dbvirago
I had arrived at my friend, Tim’s apartment a little after eight on a Friday night. I assumed it would be another night of drinking beer and watching baseball on the television. He had this new thing…
2791 words
Bullet
by dbvirago
I woke up at five-thirty like always and checked the temperature. Thirty-five degrees. I looked out the window at the pines glowing from the streetlights in front of my house. Not just thirty-five de…
1502 words
My Dad's Yard
by dbvirago
My dad lived in the same house for thirty years, and at least five days a week for those thirty years he spent time in his yard. That’s almost eight thousand times he put on whatever passed for his y…
968 words
The Day After
by dbvirago
My alarm woke me up at 5:00 Saturday morning, July 27, 1996. I didn’t really know it was a weekend. I had put in seven consecutive eighteen-hour days and I had a little more than a week to go. I was …
1120 words
The Button
by dbvirago
“That’s all I gotta do?” / “That’s all.” / “Just push the button?” / “Just push the button.” / “Okay, tell me again,” Ted Lambeth said. / He was sitting in the chair across from Doctor Piccoli’s …
413 words
The Burial
by dbvirago
The first time she entered this room seven years ago came flooding back. She had just turned sixteen. She had just met her uncle for the first time. She had just buried her mother and father. / “Wel…
698 words
Deadline
by dbvirago
The deadline was fast approaching. January 15th was less than two days away and he still sat and stared at a blank monitor. He had been writing his monthly column for twenty-nine plus years and never…
1494 words
One Day
by dbvirago
My alarm woke me at 6 a.m. I went out for a run, showered, brushed my teeth, got dressed, and had some breakfast. It was a day like any other, except today I was going to watch someone die. / I make …
4453 words
The Chain
by dbvirago
The man on the dock was gagged and duct-taped to his chair. Several loops of chain wrapped around him and the chair, disappearing into a coil at his feet. A cinder block shackled to a length running …
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38 Seconds
by dbvirago
I had a plan. It wasn’t a great plan, but a plan nonetheless. I was going to break 2:50 in the New Orleans Marathon and qualify for Boston. If I made that, I was going to hire a coach to train me for…
1187 words
EndGame
by dbvirago
“That was the best game we’ve ever had!” said Grandmaster Bloodworth. / The three members of the Inner Circle sat around the private club off 82nd on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. A…
2926 words
Christmas in Prison
by dbvirago
It’s Christmas in prison. / The food would be better on Christmas. You’d get ham and turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes with gravy, and pie. We never get pie. / The other thing about Christmas were …
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The Games
by dbvirago
“Anybody want to grab a bite to eat?” I asked. / “No, I think I’ll just go home.” / “No thanks, we have an early flight tomorrow.” / “We’re going to wander over by the stadium.” / And like that, …
2753 words
Pigwell
by dbvirago
In Pigwell, time is not measured by days or weeks but by the number of eighteen wheelers that drive past my house. That’s how I know when the weekends come and go. There isn’t as much trucking betwee…
1985 words
Rage
by dbvirago
I got the penny on our honeymoon. I’ve worn it around my neck ever since – never took it off for anything. That penny meant more to me than my wedding ring. Then some bastard went and stole it from m…
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Breakdown
by dbvirago
Annie Tucker was cruising along US-1 in the no-man’s land between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Florida. Her ML430 cruised effortlessly at 75 MPH with the sunroof open and Tom Petty blasting on the…
2532 words
Mama's Things
by dbvirago
Mamma always had a love for other people’s possessions.
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