Short Stories
VOLTA
Unexpectedly and with a tremendous peal, the bomb had detonated along a teeming promenade café. The dense column of smoke sprawled high into the evening sky—some great blossoming on this cruel April day...
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MUD
A darkened gradient stretched across the sky on this innumerable day. The whistle reverberated throughout the network of trenches; its tinny resolve linked other whistles in an invisible, yet audible web...
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SILVER AND COAL
At Noon on the 23rd of April in the Year 1778, the American Sloop-of-War, the Ranger, sailed into the Soloway Firth, riding uneasily at Anchor off St. Mary's Isle—a peninsula and the Ancient seat of the Douglas family, its sole inhabitants...
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