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Microfictions by Ken Poyner

FATE Quibble spends the day imagining what he might do, if he had the opportunity. He scolds himself that most of the things he dreams …

I played with the curls of your clipped auburn hair that I kept sealed in your grandma’s silver locket, because you always said I didn’t …

Are you dead, Maria? One Hour It seems so. Seven Days Their black clothes. Their black veils. Their white handkerchiefs, dry in their pockets. None …

Floating, ghost horse wakes in a fieldExactly like his own, just that he can’t touchThe soft weeds crawling up the fence.At first, he shivers into …

Bob Sanders awoke one morning from a dream to discover that he no longer existed. He had died in the night. He had been fifty-eight …

“My mother says the camera steals souls,” #MetaworkerMonday

“In the dead and dark of night,/
upon a haunted gorge they rise.” #metaworkermonday

She wanders through the streets past midnight. They assume it’s too dangerous for her. It isn’t because anyone who would harm her is asleep. She, …