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Allusion
A brief, unexplained reference to something else.
More words →Serialized literary fiction
Five pen names.
One hand.
Five voices that sound nothing like each other, and the writer behind them. New episodes every week. Start anywhere — every story opens free, and you don’t need an account to read it.
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Literary Fiction
The rituals that hold a person together when the noise gets too loud.
- The Gleaming Machine
- The Last Good Swing
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Southern Literary Fiction · 18+
Forging fiction, finding truth.
- Crash Point
- Reluctant Hero
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Erotic Literary Fiction · 18+
Literature that happens to be unafraid of the skin it lives in.
- Aftershocks
- Blackwing
- Country Roads
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Flash Fiction Erotica · 18+
One sitting. No apologies.
- Acoustic Signature
- Built for Sin
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Satire & Cultural Commentary
Nothing sacred. Everything questioned.
- A More Perfect Fruit Union
- Grounds for Resignation
- Rupert
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Memoir & Essay · No pen name
Tyler Wayne Bussell
The five above are masks. This one is the face.
Over the Mountain · Poetry · Three Days of Naughty · Free to read
Today in the house
Fun Fact
In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park after dying of a heart attack partway through it. His horse, Sweet Kiss, crossed the finish line with him still in the saddle.
Happy Halloween.
The Five-Second Rule
Pressing the elevator button twice doesn’t make it come faster. Pressing it nine times does. Everyone knows this.
The Margin Note · this week’s lesson
Let a Small Thing Carry the Love
Three olives can say what a speech never could.
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