Publication: Frazzled Lit
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The Red Bag by Fionnuala Meehan
The narrator of Meehan’s story is visiting a friend whose home is not exactly warm and loving. There’s a slow ratcheting up of the stress level in this story that I love: I don’t like your house; too many traps. Gleaming brass handles I might smudge, clear plastic runner I might trip over, perfect cushions…
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An Apology to the Drive Thru Bank Teller I Robbed Accidentally by Tracie Adams
This has the momentum of a freight train. The first sentence hooked me and the last left me stunned. I turned the steering wheel with sweaty palms as I exited the bank parking lot. My heart, an inmate pounding on bars, thumped against my rib cage. I drove straight home to my studio apartment, conscious…
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Shuttlecock by Camara S. Garrett
“Remind me later to tell you something,” Steffi said. With that first line, Garrett starts slowly cranking up the tension in the relationship between the narrator and his girlfriend Stephanie. This story kept surprising until the last line.
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The Lies that Bind
The narrator’s sister’s body is found 22 years after her disappearance. There’s a killer audio version of the story there too.