Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Don Roff

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I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was little I wondered about that place, how it could be so beautiful and so lost. Sometimes it seemed that the land around my New England home was like that flooded country, with mud where the streets of gold should be and mayflies swarming where there should be lovely fishes, but here and there a shard of crystal to call the heart to beauty. --"Wetlands," in Phoebe.

Claudia Putnam

Tags: fiction short-story phoebe-magazine



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I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that?

We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we’ve just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire

Claudia Putnam

Tags: fiction short-story confrontation-magazine



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He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.

David Goodis

Tags: women fiction noir pulp dark-passage david-goodis



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I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Ralph Ellison

Tags: revenge fiction invisible-man ralph-ellison



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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

Alasdair MacIntyre

Tags: morality philosophy literature fantasy fiction



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Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?

Tara Ford

Tags: humour fiction contemporary chicklit



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Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

Genie Frisbee Higbee

Tags: romance fiction mystery-suspense



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The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.

Genie Frisbee Higbee

Tags: romance fiction suspense-mystery



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If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

Adelle Waldman

Tags: success fiction



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