Category: Short Stories
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You’re Too Smart For That
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Janet FloraA woman in her 30s gives instructional advice about romantic relationships. You know you can’t change him, so you try to get him to change himself. He has told you all you need to know: that he has been unsuccessful at all his past relationships, and he’s just about to…
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NOISE
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Janet FloraAn unmarried couple in their 50s hear the static in their relationship. “You swallow too loud,” Bob said to Ellen as they sat at the kitchen table during a late-night snack. Ellen held the tea in her mouth moving the warm liquid from side to side. For a moment she…
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Banging on Doors
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Janet FloraWhen the parents of a man in his 20s decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
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Waiting for Lena
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Janet FloraAn 82-year-old woman, still living with her twin sister examines their relationship and how it has affected her life.
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It’s not what you think
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Janet FloraA woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.