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1 min read stories

Discover a collection of stories which are around 1 minute read time.

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Entirely

If we could get the hang of it entirely    It would take too long; All we know is the splash of words in passing       And falling twigs of song, And when we...

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Notes for a Young Gentleman

A gentleman should greet with genuine warmth only the following persons – his sister’s daughters, his maternal aunts and his mortal enemies.

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Painting over Aya Sofia

A lot of the painting here is painting over. Can everyone at the back hear over everyone? Everyone is a blast of light seeping across the film. All day high...

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Moths

A translator who has a phobia of moths spent three years translating a book with a moth motif. It’s ironic, she has said, that she knew more about the moths...

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Language is her caravan

Frosty, green through gray rising steeply, top of the bank a big top, red with a sign, misty, fantastical on the walk to school.“My sister can’t express...

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The Sun in a Box

When I was younger I drafted a memory. I drew a rectangle on a piece of card and called it a computer. Happy hours spent playing with framed nothing...

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Fanciphobia

I wear my fear around me / I fan it out on my pillow

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Vacation

I am in Chicago, in dark tunnels. I'm meeting up with a girl I know from high school who I haven't seen in five years.I wait for her in the street, in the...

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A Haunted House

Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure--a ghostly couple."Here...

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The Triantiwontigongolope

Have you ever heard of an animal as ridiculous as the triantiwontigongolope?

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The Glugs of Gosh - Ogs

The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.

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The Glugs of Gosh - Joi, the Glug

The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.