#TinyFiction for a prompt from @wordswithnima: "shallow"

This summer, the lake had retreated further than ever before. She stood on the muddy shore with a smell of salt and rot in her nose.

In the shallow water she could see the remains of a wall with a door. When she had made it there through the knee-deep mud, she wiped off the dirt and dead plants, to reveal her family name on a rusted iron plate on the door.

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---Scientific Fable---

"Grandmother, why do we move our eyes when we sleep?", asked the Little Red Riding Hood.

"The better to see the phantasmagories behind our eyelids", was the Big Bad Wolf's response.

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Looking desperately for AirPods. Hoping he isn’t talking to himself. #tinyfiction #Shortstory #shortstories

The wonderful feeling of knowing I have a trip to the bookstore this afternoon while not having a clue what I’ll come away with. #books #bookstore #tinyfiction

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The old man, the mayor, was trying to say that the world was knit together with threads we could not see, that the wind was a bridge between people.
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|n|otabilia 474 ⁂ Michael Martone ⁂ "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a Night in December in 1976" || read it in #Notabilia, a daily(ish) newsletter: http://ktxc.to/nbts #flashfiction #tinyfiction #prosepoem