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RECENT STORIES & VIDEO TRAILERS

  • Hospital Sweeper
    I didn’t think I’d get fired in my first week. But looking the whole thing over — I didn’t think I’d get the job. Although I had some experience cleaning — well, cleaning cars — what’s so hard about sweeping in a hospital? Whatever. I got hired, but I didn’t really care. But no one…
  • Cubicles
    “Don’t touch me!” Marcia hissed in reaction to the bump against her chair. “Geez, you’d think I was trying to steal your stapler.” Geoff playfully offered his innocent look and rolled his chair slightly closer to his desk. “Leave me alone.” She did not try to hide her annoyance. “It was an accident.” He tried…
  • Pizza Fighter
    Harold paused at the dough rolling counter. “Is it crazy to want a fight?” His boss, a burly man named Mike, leaned against the other side, his gaze fixed on Harold’s incomplete pizza. “Get back to work,” he said, his voice a low rumble. “No, seriously, I think peace is overrated,” Harold continued, oblivious to…
  • Lost Fight
    It wouldn’t be fair to say she lost due to not trying — even though she didn’t. Really, she had been trying for too long. In the past seven years of marriage, Lois aged as fast as her decaying used car, which had been gifted from her secondhand husband when they were newly married (both…
  • Silhouette
    Somehow I recognized the silhouette. Yet I can’t fathom from when or where. Or, perhaps it was simply the feeling that was familiar: a profound foreboding. The feeling had visited me in the past, either in a dream or some precarious circumstance — the details of which were as opaque as the face in the…