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Week Ten: The Readiness Factor

You can read this series from the beginning here. I hate to admit it here, but I missed the last two weeks of August going to a corporate meeting in the Bahamas. This sounds like a corrupt and decadent thing for a progressive to do, but at least I come by it honestly. The family […]

PreTeena November 23-30, 2014

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Innocent Victim

Brittany must’ve said something, but she could never remember.Tears filled her eyes and she couldn’t say much, and her mother took the phone from her and spoke for a little while longer. Her father seemed a little mollified by what Erica told him of the principal’s words, but rage still seethed through him.He opened and […]

Innocent Victim

Silence grew around Brittany as she walked. She kept her eyes down, but she could still see faces change to disgust as they noticed her. The whole corridor became deathly quiet and she scarcely dared to breathe. She reached her locker and tried to vanish, but she could feel eyes upon her–every eye. She drew […]

Week Nine: The Anthropomorphic Fallacy

You can read this series from the beginning here. "You know what the problem is," Carl said. "Curry-to-naan ratio," I said. Carl and I both liked the same Indian vegetarian place. It was close to the office when we needed a change from brown-bag lunches at our cubicles. The food was decent, but they had […]

The Angry Astronaut Affair

By the time Reginald Waite returned home, the darkness of night covered the Houston metropolitan area, a perfect close for a perfectly rotten day. It was supposed to be a routine trip to Pasadena to discuss the specifics of a new model of satellite Antares was taking up next month, but he’d no more than […]

Chapter 1 of A Girl, A Dog, A Boat

A Girl, A Dog, A Boat Fiction by Audie Cockings Chapter 1: Listen to Your Mother She told me this would happen. At sixty-eight years old, my mom, Flossie, hit the nail on the head, yet again. She was right about Andy, Marc, James, Julian, Miguel, and now Todd. I should have stuck with serial […]

Non-Traditional Holiday Fiction Contest

Holiday-themed fiction has become sadly predictable: ‘Tis the Season for Santa, reindeer, and family reconciliation. Not that we don’t love tradition and feel-good endings; but it feels like it’s time for something a bit…different. So for Liberty Island’s first annual Holiday Fiction Contest, we’re asking for you to surprise us. Pick your favorite genre–sci fi, […]

PreTeena November 17-23, 2014

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Week Eight: The Mountaineer Scenario

You can read this series from the beginning here. It was late on Friday morning, and I had decided it was a lot more fun to Photoshop pictures of Supreme Court justices into chauffeur and butler outfits–to demonstrate their servility to their corporate masters, you understand–than it was to actually read Supreme Court decisions. I […]