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Plight Makes Write

Seth

I write short stories and commentaries on literature. I strive to write the kind of stories that are less and less written and say the things that are less and less said.

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Absolution

Picture by Luiggi Castillo. Taken from Pexels.

CONTENT WARNING: The story contains casual sexism and homophobia, including slurs

Carroway, Massachusetts, 1986, and the three of you burst out of Aliens like pharyngeal jaws ready to sna...

9 days ago
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We Have Chosen Madness

We live between two worlds: the real and the online. There is a war between these worlds, and with it a war within humanity. You would think our principal devotion would be to the real world for it is the real world that supplies our...

16 days ago
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See Jane Play

Photo obtained from Pexels.

See Dick and Jane.
Jane loves Dick.
Dick loves Jane too.
Do you have someone who loves you?
Yay!

Dick and Jane make a home.
Dick is Dad.
Jane is Mom.
They have three kids.
Joe and Sue and Bree....

23 days ago
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Modern Writing Has Lost the Plot

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There is a tendency in modern “literary” short stories to forgo plot, as if plot is something contemptuous or tawdry, only fit for lowbrow fiction, or perhaps something that is simply too much bother. I suspect...

a month ago
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ORDNUNG

There is an order to things, Jacob Zook tells his son, Daniel. Morning, noon, night. Church, family, work.
“Here.”
His huge, gruff hands guide the boy to the anvil. The steel glows orange, humming with heat. He shows him the tongs, pr...

a month ago
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