Publication: Fictive Dream
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Sforzando by Timothy Reilly
It’s a story about tuba lessons, kind of. It goes in unexpected directions, and also contains some good tuba trivia (18 feet of tubing!).
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Sting
A creepy camping story with and ending that’ll haunt you. The perspective shift in this story is done brilliantly, and the ending will linger for a while.
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Juice
I’d read this when it was new and forgotten about it. It’s funny throughout, with a brilliant final paragraph.
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More Static than Skin
Weird speculative fiction about a student who is terminally online: “Nobody believes her when she introduces herself as a poor signal.”
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Stan
About a sad, homeless man that comes around the house now and then, told through the eyes of a child.