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Harmless Beasts
a short story by Peter Palmieri (This story was previously published in The Starship Logs Volume 2: Creatures by Telltale Press – 2020) “Don’t eat too fast,” Mrs. Miller said as she popped the lid off the chicken-and-gravy jar, one of those with a wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked infant on its label. “You’ll get a tummy acheContinue reading “Harmless Beasts”
A Long Stretch of Highway – a short story
by Peter Palmieri This was the Grand Prize winning entry at the 2015 Dallas Medicine+Literature writing contest. The highest praise I received as a doctor came from a steely-eyed, reticent cowboy near the start of my career. He sat in the mommy chair of my exam room, his three-year old daughter squirming on his steadyContinue reading “A Long Stretch of Highway – a short story”
PARKLAND – a short story
Leroy Abellard meets interesting people on the graveyard shift at Parkland Hospital. Previously published in Beyond the Levee, an anthology of short stories (copyright 2020) If it had an engine, Leroy Abellard could fix it — it didn’t matter if it was a lawnmower or a 25-ton industrial AC unit. By the time he wasContinue reading “PARKLAND – a short story”
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