short story
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The Return
She told me, since day one, to not worry about it. To not think about it too much. And when I do think about it, look around and try and find some other thing. Maybe that thing has a story, a story to help me not think about it. And I said I would do Continue reading
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This Place I’ve Made My Home
Little Fiction 3 A story about modern love. Our narrator lets themselves fall for a boy to such a degree they let him live inside of her/them. He moves in, and a sickness starts to swell and burn with the constant threat of rain. Continue reading
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The Sunday Funnies
Little Fiction 2 After an unfortunate tragedy befalls their little family, a father and son mend their grief through a shared love of comics and stories. What follows is a lifelong saga told through in-between moments about trying to get by in a lonely world, finding a home in unlikely spaces, and deciding for yourself Continue reading
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Works In Progress 1
Instead of a weekly report this Saturday, enjoy these teasers for some of the stuff I’ve been working on. If all goes according to plan, each of these projects will receive their full release on this blog in the coming months. From The Outside Looking In A short story about a retail manager in rural Continue reading
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Little Fiction 1
Lakewater Perhaps for dinner. Something with cheese. Wine maybe? Fancy people always have that, I hear. Wine and cheese and laughter with a smirk of irony on the rocks. I bet there’s some around here. Maybe in the cellar. I wondered if it’s secret. They’d do that. I’d do that. I wouldn’t want anybody snooping Continue reading
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EPISODE THREE
Reflections on “The Cave” “The Cave” is a short story written by Liliana Colanzi. It was published in her new collection of short fiction “You Glow In The Dark” earlier this year. You can read her story in the link provided, but you can read my thoughts on it here. Sometimes I take comfort in Continue reading
The Benjamin Report 