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Entries in Flash Fiction (19)

Wednesday
Apr062011

Pete Limpelli and the Clifton Expedition

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Episode 19

Clifton hill, like many hills in Cincinnati, was buttressed by a grey concrete retaining wall, which snaked and wound in a sad cold ribbon, keeping the remnants of once dense forests, and the remnants of once proud houses from tumbling down.

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Monday
Mar212011

Sax Taxson’s Chomsky Defense Meets Ockham’s Razor

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Episode 18

The trooper closed the door to the Crown Vic and walked up to the side of Chomsky, the old maroon ’77 Chevy Malibu.

Sax Taxson, elbow out the window, his long sleeve button down rolled up to just below the triceps, smiled his wide jagged smile up at the trooper.

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Sunday
Feb272011

Sax Taxson and the Trooper

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Episode 17

Sitting in Chomsky with his hands at two and ten, Sax Taxson thought about what would eventually go down as a precedent – known as the Sax Taxson - Noam Chomsky defense. The word or signifier ‘dog’ could never actually represent an object ‘dog,’ without being first subjectively aligned in a mental construct.

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Friday
Feb112011

Sax Taxson Gets Pulled Over

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Episode 16

Just then, in his rear view mirror, Sax Taxson saw a state trooper car, replete with archaic cherry top light, and wailing siren. In his rear view mirror Sax saw a trooper driving with his hat on, which if he remembered correctly from some cop shows he used to watch, was a procedural no no.

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Sunday
Feb062011

Sax Taxson

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Episode 15

Sax had to run. Cheviot Machine and Screw was stifling in the mid August humidity. Those lazy hot days when the air sticks to your clothing Sax secretly hated. Sax was an autumn sort of guy, and was looking forward to the change of season coming up.

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Monday
Jan312011

Sax Taxson had an Idea

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Episode 14

What Sax had in mind was a magnum size penis pump. He didn't personally own one, but he knew a guy who ran a “backroom,” near Sorbonne actually.

“Len,” Sax said. Sax was tired of his creepy quiet image he had somehow acquired, and by making the offer, was trying to redefine himself as a guy with real and viable ideas. Sax would be known as a ‘go to guy,’ or a ‘man with the plan.’ In his bathroom, Sax had a copy of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, which he would thumb through while forcing out a poop.

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Tuesday
Jan252011

Henge had Called about the Water Cannon

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Episode 13

“Len!?” Mabel would yell, peering inside the door. She’d yell as kind of a warning. A heads up yell. An inquisitive yell. She would stare at the concrete floor, and listen for movement. As long as Len wasn’t sleeping with another woman, Mabel could control Len’s drinking.

One afternoon, in mid August, Mabel came inside the office, after calling out the obligatory warning and staring at the concrete floor for what she surmised was at least forty-five seconds, which, Mabel realized, was at least twenty seconds longer than comfortable.

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Wednesday
Jan122011

A Secret of Cheviot Machine and Screw

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Episode 12

In his refrigerator, at Cheviot Machine and Screw, Len Wiedeshofer kept, at all times, at least one case of O’Doul’s, and a six pack of Coke.

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Saturday
Dec112010

Cheviot Machine and Screw

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Episode 11

The water cannon was manufactured in the tiny Cheviot Machine and Screw shop on Glenmore, before Harrison, and after Gamble. The one in the basement of the storefront building, with the awning, with the apartments on the second and third floors for bachelors with hot plates, who liked to masturbate at pictures of glossy Ass Thumper magazines.

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Saturday
Dec042010

Rick Hollo Runs a Tight Ship

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Episode 10

Rick Hollo rummaged around in the drawer of the battleship grey colored desk. The heavy metal slides swayed smoothly while Rick gripped the top of the drawer with his left hand.

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