The Death God's Way
This appeared in a 2023 anthology. Morning Pages: October 9th. Sands Beach. California. The beach feels off, like it holds its breath...
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SHELLY LYONS
May 5, 20239 min
Don't Click Unless You Want to Change Your Life
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, 20237 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, 20233 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, 20232 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, 20234 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, 202211 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, 202211 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, 20229 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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SHELLY LYONS
Oct 1, 20227 min
Spork & Straw
It's chilly inside Taco Bell, yet every bit of me is sweating at the thought of what I'm about to do, which might get me killed later...
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SHELLY LYONS
Sep 9, 202213 min
Yapo's Magic Pintle
1. Provocation. See the bloated cloud with lightning in its belly drift across the valley and hover like a sentient thing over the...
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SHELLY LYONS
Aug 20, 20226 min
What the Daves Saw
(The prompt was: urban legends set in the 90s. Art was AI-generated) I hope I didn’t see what I think I saw that night. The indica...
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SHELLY LYONS
Jul 20, 20221 min
A Trip to Von's
Years of devotion rutted the landscape like stretch marks. All the meals I cooked, the children I bore. All your lamentable needs. Repaid...
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SHELLY LYONS
Jun 17, 20223 min
Defensive Driving with Grandpa
Let us assume nobody gives two shits if you careen off the road and die. Let us assume it is your responsibility to keep others alive....
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SHELLY LYONS
May 11, 20224 min
WHO'S THERE?
Hedda delighted in seeing herself on the morning news, even though the news folks hid her face with a black bar and used some type of...
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SHELLY LYONS
Mar 9, 20224 min
The Final Precept
Hi, you can also listen to this (under 7 minutes) here. The rain is steady, and though Los Angeles storms can be more of a pounding than...
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SHELLY LYONS
Jan 19, 20227 min
Googly-Goo-Boo-Boo
(What Does the Dream-Catcher Mean to You?) (You can also listen to it here) My Aunt is a whack drunk hippy-dip drone, a boring X-er...
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