Curious Fictions

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Catseye

Published Apr 7, 2019 · 788 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 205 views

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Originally published in the anthology FAMILIARS, edited by Denise Little, it was born out of hearing a man say that he would never date a woman who owned a cat....

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Jen Knox

Rideshare

Published Mar 3, 2019 · 2,352 words (9 minutes)

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"Am I dead?” “You should be so lucky. All this craziness going on in your world.” As she spoke, a child who looked like Peter from The Snowy Day, the first book I remember reading, ran alongside us on the street in his red suit.

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Jen Knox

West on N Road

Published Feb 12, 2019 · 3,746 words (14 minutes)

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"Rattle walked the loop at sunrise and sunset. At dawn, he was quick-footed, ignoring joints that ached and scraped as though rusted. He pushed on, to the first big rock, shaking the bones and waking the tendons. The stiffness would ease after a quarter-mile."

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Jen Knox

Our Sky, the Ocean

Published Dec 19, 2018 · 735 words (3 minutes) · 162 views

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Two sisters learn to see the world in new ways.

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Jen Knox

The Suit

Published Dec 14, 2018 · 2,261 words (9 minutes) · 154 views

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"Miranda could get anyone to smile, and there was nowhere people needed to smile more than on public transportation in northwestern Ohio."

Late Bus in Cluj Napoca, Romania, under heavy snow

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Jen Knox

10-4

Published Nov 23, 2018 · 4,247 words (16 minutes) · 109 views

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Jeff will be my first arrest. I don’t dislike the guy, but it’ll be easy, make me look tough out of the gate. The first arrest is a big deal, and I happen to know that Jeff will break the law any given day he finds breath in his lungs.