2010 Weekly Shorts

Ray Bradbury once said, You can’t write 52 bad stories in a row. Or maybe he didn’t, but this idea has been attributed to him more than anyone else.

Whoever said it, I decided to give it a shot back in 2010.

I posted these stories publicly to keep myself honest, since I was certain to have off weeks when I’d want to throw in the towel. Believe me, there were many of those weeks, waiting until the night before to force myself to sit down in front of a blank page and hammer something out.

Here they are, in the order they appeared on the blog, every last story no matter how good, bad, or ugly.

1. Rush Ch 1 : We Smile
2. Rush Ch 2 : Hello, Rush
3. Rush Ch 3 : We Dance
4. Rush Ch 4 : Rush Home
5. Rush Ch 5 : We Slip Away
6. Rush : Ch 6 : We Connect
7. Toast and Jam
8. The Stars at Night
9. Needles Part I
10. Needles Part II
11. Around Her Neck Like a Scarf (Now revised and published)
12. Better Places Part I
13. Better Places Part II
14. The Mother-Fucking Scientist
15. The Liberation of Edward Kellor (Now revised and published)
16. The Special (Now revised and published)
17. Empty Bottles
18. Orange Rind
19. All The Black Birds Look The Same
20. Latakia (Now revised and published)
21. The Case Part I
22. Clocks
23. The Dance
24. Wet Roads Glisten
25. The Red Baron
26. Five Million Dollars
27. Hey Man, Nice Shot
28. Tri Tip Sandwich (Follow up to The Special)
29. Unassembled
30. I Need Pills To Stay Alive
31. Ten Cents (Follow up to Empty Bottles)
32. A Long Shadow Stretches Across the Sand
33. Flies and Blue Skies
34. Flies and Blue Skies Part II
35. Flies and Blue Skies Part III
36. Flies and Blue Skies Part IV
37. Life is Shit Part I
38. I Do Miss The Rain
39. Life is Shit Part II
40. Life is Shit Part III
41. Hula Girls
42. Life is Shit Part IV
43. Life is Shit Part V
44. Mouth
45. Cold Hands Part I
46. The Cowboy
47. Subsistence
48. Fathers
49. Salvador’s Mother (Follow up to Ten Cents)
50. Cold Hands Part II
51. The Case Part II
52. G.O.D., LLC

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