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Aggie spent the afternoon cringing at the memory of being dumped by a guy she wasn’t even dating. Joe, who attended physical therapy the...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Mar 29, 2023
- 7 min
Your Air of Sadness
~A Spinster on a Saturday Night~ INVITATION: Casual cocktail party. Bring nothing but yourself. Those seven words become a nimbus that...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Mar 16, 2023
- 3 min
A Howling in the Woods
“...that nightmarish struggle against the pillow’s deadly softness.” * Few things scream terror better than an imperiled child, a spooky...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Mar 16, 2023
- 2 min
Black Noon (1971)
“We are not from Connecticut.” – Caleb Hobbes. Black Noon aired Friday, November 5, 1971 as one of the CBS Friday Night Movies. Here is...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Feb 27, 2023
- 4 min
From the Odious Stink to Like Real
I wrote this for Max Boothe III's Ghoulish newsletter the week my first book, LIKE REAL, was published... How resonant it would be if I...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Dec 19, 2022
- 11 min
I Hardly Know Where to Begin...
“…the most pressing issue is our key fobs don’t work so we can’t open the door of this ridiculously small—” “May I have your name and...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Nov 23, 2022
- 11 min
Ho-Ho-Noo!
Moments before the ship crashed on Tuesday November 24, 1992 at 7 pm, Tony Flores, 43, hot-glued the final Velcro strip to his latest...
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SHELLY LYONS
- Nov 8, 2022
- 9 min
Ye Phantom Limb
Slowly, inexorably, I’m turning into a pirate. I’ve lost one of my legs above the knee. Never ask why. I’ll not speak of it. What’s left...
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