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Short stories accepted: Two dozen!

Posted on March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 by Don Noel

Several recent acceptances aren’t available to read in full yet, but two are: Have a look at “The Watchmaker,” inspired by the man who kept our Seth Thomas clock chiming, now posted by 99 Pine Street; and “The Terrorist,” published by Meat for Tea: The Valley Review.

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  • Short Stories from 2020 on
    • Moonlight Meander
    • Jigsaw Puzzle
    • Aunt Carrie
    • The Emissary
    • Inventions
    • Parting Thoughts
    • A Sawyer’s Education
    • Waiting
    • The Golden Key
    • A Bench with a View
    • The Other Woman
    • Opportunities
    • Hitchhiker
    • Getting to First Base
    • Anticipation
    • Buyout
    • Granddaughter
    • A Purpose of Words
    • Likenesses
    • At Daybreak
    • Extraordinary
    • Déjà vu
    • Arson
    • Getting to Know You
    • Miss Sam
    • Talking with Ravens
    • Coffee Break
    • The Lineman
    • Getting to Know You
    • Autumn Snow
    • A Flash in the Pan
    • Orchestral Passions
    • Getting to Know You
    • Kindling Desire
    • Penances
    • Relinquishing
    • The Aeronautical Lawn Chair
    • By the Park
    • My Great American Ornament
    • New Beginnings
    • Math Game
    • The Geppetto Camera
    • Options
    • Doctor’s Orders
    • His Child
    • Connubial Distance
    • In Surreal Time
    • Gigolo
    • Vigil
    • Fortissimo
    • Tchotchkes
    • Maury’s Mustang
    • Most Recent ⬆︎ – – – – Others ⬇︎Alpha Order
    • Adoptees
    • Behind the Locked Door
    • Bonding
    • Bristling Senescence
    • Consultants
    • Crossing
    • For Unpolished Beauty
    • Harmonic Distance
    • Independence
    • Intimations of Mortality
    • Keepsakes
    • Rabbits and Coyotes
    • Shy Boy
    • Spiders
    • Strawberries
    • Street People
    • The Daddy Tree
    • The Redhead
    • Threshing
    • Watching for Lion
    • While the Wife’s Away
    • Without a Paddle
  • Short Stories pre 2020
    • Anticipation
    • At the Shad Dam
    • At the Swing Tree
    • Barnyard Election
    • Behind the Mutiny
    • Beyond the Reef
    • Birding
    • Buying Votes
    • Carny Couple
    • Chip Off the Old Block
    • Closure
    • Connubial Counsel
    • Consultants
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    • Darwin
    • Dawn Babel
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    • Escalator Reunion
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    • Méchant
    • Millie’s Mane
    • Mountain Test
    • Open Carry
    • Parting Company
    • Quake Lake
    • Ransom
    • Rescue
    • Schoolmaster
    • Scorpions
    • Seeing Charlie Off
    • Sirens
    • Street People
    • Surveillance [1]
    • Surveillance [2]
    • Sweet Charity
    • Tattoos
    • Thanatopsis
    • The Appearance of Mary
    • The Good Seed
    • The Handkerchief
    • The Leopard
    • The Man Who Cancelled the Newspaper
    • The Ring
    • The Terrorist
    • The Tree
    • The Trombone
    • The Whole Truth
    • The Watchmaker
    • Time Passing
    • Tiresias
    • Trails
    • Une Piste pour Le Petit
    • Wandered
    • Wanted
    • Wildlife
    • Windfall
  • Non-Fiction
    • Among the Bristlecones
    • Bears and Birds
    • Our House in the Woods
    • Outliving Sin
    • Rattlesnakes
    • Man with a Riata
    • Best in Show
    • Fishing with Baskets
    • Never about the fish
    • Geometry of Motion
    • Old Folks on the Tube
    • Don’t Feed the Bears
    • The Mighty Sparrow
    • New Year’s toast for Seabury residents
    • Being Watched
    • For Unpolished Beauty
    • Jacob’s Roosters
    • Milestones
    • Monseigneur
    • Parting Company
    • The Terrorist
    • The Watchmaker
    • Thrift
    • When Elephants Harvested Teak
    • Work Rules
    • Brad Noel dies at 88
  • Comment&
    • The Demise of Local Journalism
    • What happened in the summer of 1963
    • Remembering a conversation with Malcolm X
    • Failing newspapers, damaged democracy
    • How to make political gifts tax-deductible?
  • Books
    • Near a Far Sea