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Category: Fiction

…or Silly Stories on Serious Topics

Fiction

Rocking Ape: Fire Tiger and Metal Horse

Puzzle Pieces7 October, 20237 October, 2023

The water rocks the boat as though running aground, only it never sinks. Above the surface, the boat floats heavy on an ocean without horizon. On the boat rocks an ape. Peacefully meditating a world into existence. In the world…

Continue reading ➞ Rocking Ape: Fire Tiger and Metal Horse
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Death Inc.

Puzzle Pieces17 February, 202117 September, 2021

[[Author’s warning: This story contain a pretty dark sense of humour that may not appeal to everyone.]] Blinding light… Excruciating pain… Silent darkness… Illuminating hope… A buff man… …? __ “Ah! Man… I’ll never get used to how you guys…

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Fiction

The ocean train station

Puzzle Pieces7 November, 20209 November, 2020

In the middle of some ocean somewhere forgotten, there is a train station. The wet landscape surrounds the waiting hall and its seven platforms are only just so slightly raised above a water surface that hides the iron tracks beneath.…

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Fiction

Our Spot

Puzzle Pieces23 August, 202023 August, 2020

My contribution to The Weekly Knobs prompt: “Swing.”https://theweeklyknob.com/our-spot-36079e62f06c___ “You know I don’t swing that way,” she told me yet again. This time, I’d said nothing, but silence often speaks louder than words. So as though to avoid a conversation that…

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Fiction

The court is in session

Puzzle Pieces17 August, 202017 August, 2020

I didn’t realise where I was at the time, heck, I don’t think I really have any idea now either. Some things are just not made to be comprehended at any point in time. Yet there I was anyway, somewhere…

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(Beta version:) Oh Brother, where art thou?

Puzzle Pieces4 June, 20207 June, 2020

Author’s note: This is the first version of one of the short stories taking part in Lost Little Robots. As it was one of the first to be written it no longer fits into the whole collection (also, I don’t…

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The mystery of the missing socks: a sort of love story for the misfits

Puzzle Pieces8 January, 20209 January, 2020

We have all been there. Laundry has been done, and after tirelessly matching all the socks, only two are left and they clearly do not to belong together. It makes no sense, yet it happens all the time. Anne was…

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Fiction

The Wifi Must Die…

Puzzle Pieces15 March, 201921 October, 2019

… or how Mr Fluffball went to battle against the monster squares Mr Fluffball’s family consisted of six people. Mama Anne, Papa John, teenage daughter Becky and the twin little brothers Thomas and Jake, and himself Mr Fluffball, the family’s…

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Fiction

An Unbelievable Headache

Puzzle Pieces2 March, 201921 October, 2019

How mother nature deals with the environmental abuse It was a disaster of catastrophic proportions. In fact, it was such a big deal that no one really knew what the hell they could possibly do about it. Or even if…

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Fiction

The invasion of the mega slugs

Puzzle Pieces28 February, 201910 July, 2020

Or the scenario in which Brexit turned out to be kind of a clever move They roughly resemble Spanish garden slugs. Only, the smallest ones have the height of a five-story building and the length of a medium-sized city block.…

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