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A SHADOW THE LENGTH OF A LIFETIME by Sheldon Lee Compton

A SHADOW THE LENGTH OF A LIFETIME by Sheldon Lee Compton

Posted: January 15, 2019  ·  Tagged: 1500+ WORDS · FICTION · ISSUE 15 · SHELDON LEE COMPTON

The last address was easy to remember. But in a year living on the outskirts of downtown Portsville, Calup still confused First Street with Second Street about every other time. Maybe that’s what happened with his last letter. Confusion was now his general state of mind, even on good days,…

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VICTORY PARTY by Sheldon Lee Compton

VICTORY PARTY by Sheldon Lee Compton

Posted: July 16, 2018  ·  Tagged: FICTION · ISSUE 7 · SHELDON LEE COMPTON · UNDER 1500 WORDS

He talks to me through the trees. Not through them, like he’s standing on one side of a treeline and I’m standing on the other, but like he is the trees. We will stay together, become taproots, strong and lasting, he says. Or we are both oaks. Discussing trees and…

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