Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories Monday, April 17, 2023 Creativity by Fred Skolnik <i>Fred Skolnik explores the nature of creativity and consciousness as his character tries to write the story of a woman in a dark coat. </i><br><br>Point A is connected to Point B, Point B is connected to Point C. When you run out of letters you go back to the beginning, using subscripts. In this way you can record an infinite number of connections, or "links" as they are called nowadays, though ther… Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories 3 comments:
Fred Skolnik medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Friday, April 12, 2019 Adrift in the Global Village by Fred Skolnik <i>An Algerian TV personality moves to Paris, where she lives alongside an Arab orphan, a German pimp, and an Israeli with mysterious motivations who has piqued her interest; by Fred Skolnik.</i><br><br> Samiyah was afraid one of the hotheads would do her in after she talked about masturbation on MBC so she didn't go back to Riyadh after they taped the show but went straight to Beirut from Amman and rented … Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 4 comments:
creepy stories Fred Skolnik medium length stories Friday, December 30, 2016 Professor Middleton's Sunday Morning by Fred Skolnik <i>Fred Skolnik's portrait of coldly self absorbed professor of </i><i>American history</i><i> Julia Middleton, too sure of her place in the world.</i><br><br> Professor Middleton stretched and yawned. It was a delicious feeling, tensing every muscle in her body. She liked the way her body felt. She was forty-one, a mature and desirable woman. Her husband adored her, her children idolized her. She stretched again, tighte… Read more Labels: creepy stories Fred Skolnik medium length stories 4 comments:
Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Four Hours by Fred Skolnik <i>Fred Skolnik narrates the last four hours of Jake's life in stream of consciousness style.</i><br><br> The day of your death is a very special day. Ideally it should be planned, but of course we seldom know precisely when we are going to die so we come downstairs feeling just slightly unwell, thinking maybe it's heartburn, and don't pay much attention to it because we've had that feeling befo… Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories 7 comments:
Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Listening to Arvo Pärt by Fred Skolnik <i>Music lover Brand's marriage to Myra has lost its strength and seems mirrored by neighbours and old friends Larry and Marje; by Fred Skolnik.</i><br><br> He listened to <i>Spiegel im Spiegel</i> on the <i>Alina</i> disk about 20 times. It was recorded in three different versions, on the first, third and fifth tracks, while <i>Für Alina</i> was recorded in two different versions, on tracks two and four, so he copied the three… Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories 4 comments:
criminal stories Fred Skolnik long stories pick of the month Friday, January 16, 2015 Noir by Fred Skolnik <i>Charlie Walker gets out of prison after five years and seems to be managing to restart his life, until he falls for a femme fatale; by Fred Skolnik.</i><br><br> When Walker got out of the pen he checked into a cheap hotel across the street from a bar & grill with a flashing neon sign. The light went on and off as he lay in his bed smoking a cigarette and listening to the rain outside. He wasn't reall… Read more Labels: criminal stories Fred Skolnik long stories pick of the month 6 comments:
creepy stories Fred Skolnik pick of the month short stories Tuesday, September 23, 2014 The Rooming House by Fred Skolnik <i>Fred Skolnik's character can't remember where he lives in this unsettling tale, with echoes of Kafka and Karinthy's Metropole (originally appeared in 34th Parallel, no. 4, Sept. 2008).</i><br><br> I got back late in the afternoon. Cars were double-parked in a roped-off area in front of the building but there were no cars parked at the curb, which I found odd. A teenage girl came by on a skateboar… Read more Labels: creepy stories Fred Skolnik pick of the month short stories 4 comments:
Fred Skolnik real life stories short stories Sunday, March 30, 2014 Requiem for an Unborn Child by Fred Skolnik <i>Fred Skolnik's moving stream of consciousness about a father's longing for his aborted child.</i><br><br> After the abortion Claire had been depressed for a few weeks and it was clear that she blamed Justin for it, though neither of them had been ready for another child, and in any case the marriage had been on the rocks for a while. Claire told Justin very bitterly that she would have had the child … Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik real life stories short stories 6 comments:
Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories Sunday, November 24, 2013 1901 by Fred Skolnik <i>Newlywed Dorothea feels foreboding about the future in Fred Skolnik's charming turn-of-the-century American romance.</i><br><br> "Progress," Dorothea thought when Rupert brought the newspaper to their bed. He was wearing his striped pajamas but still looked like a Greek god. Dorothea was naked under the sheet. She loved the brazen sensuality of it. The room was warm. It was a lovely August day.… Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik medium length stories real life stories 4 comments:
Fred Skolnik futuristic stories medium length stories Sunday, July 7, 2013 Another Kind of Harmony by Fred Skolnik <i>Fred Skolnik tells the story of John and Mary, members of a strange race in a red world.</i><br><br> In the red room the figures come and go. In the red light they give off an eerie glow. In the red dust they twist and turn. There is nothing but this: the red light and the figures that come and go. There are no walls in the red room. It is as big as you want it to be. No one can say for certain how their his… Read more Labels: Fred Skolnik futuristic stories medium length stories 3 comments:
