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Richard Morris

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On the S-Train

Submitted to Contest #271

(story makes mention of sexual violence and suicide) "Damn, stupid window won't shut," said the first stranger, fiddling with the slide-lock. He hunched over the window for leverage, pulled the metal pin as far as it would go; it catapulted back and bit his finger. "Ow! Stupid thing," he pretended to himself. He was trying for the attention of the woman across from him - to start a conversation, to pass the time. "Never does," she replied, unbothered. A regular to the 6:45 S-Train southbound. The yellow fog of the evening rubbed its back aga...

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please, end the suffering and publish this

Submitted to Contest #250

I am, it seems, a terrible god. Worse than cruel, I am a bumbling, amateur god who cannot make up his damn mind. I am too saccharine to be cold-blooded, too ironic to be loving. Alas, I am a terrible god, and under my indecisive rule, one of my subjects has decided to rebel. I do not blame them. This is a story that began in one of those classes where professional gods teach their aspiring underlings how to be better at playing god. The prompt was: make one of your subjects overhear a conversation they shouldn't have heard. Perhaps I've watc...

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