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  • Home
  • Blog
  • Publications
    • The Good Fortune of Augusta
    • A Golden Yellow Cage
    • Fountain of Youth
    • Blacksburg Park
    • The Amazing Antoinette
    • That Song
    • Entropy
    • Black and White and Red All Over
    • The Last Blue Sky: Starflight
    • Faces of the Dead Ones
    • The Hard Sell
    • Legacy
    • Clash
    • The Final Sentence
    • Lost and Found
  • Stories
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 1
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 2
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 3
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 4
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 5
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 6 (Current)
    • Blondie Walker
    • The Hardest Men
    • The Tyranny Of Defense
  • Webcomics
    • Infinity >
      • Infinity 1 of 3
      • Infinity 2 of 3
      • Infinity 3 of 3
    • Extra Sin >
      • Extra Sin 1 of 3
      • Extra Sin 2 of 3
      • Extra Sin 3 of 3
    • Stolen Loneliness >
      • Stolen Loneliness 1 of 5
      • Stolen Loneliness 2 of 5
      • Stolen Loneliness 3 of 5
      • Stolen Loneliness 4 of 5
      • Stolen Loneliness 5 of 5

Stories

Instagram Micro Stories

Got 30 seconds? Then come inside for a picture, a story, and a punch in the gut:
Volume 1: (October - December 2015)
Volume 2: (January - March 2016)
Volume 3: (April 2016 - August 2016)
Volume 4: (September 2016 - January 2017)​
​Volume 5: (February 2017 - January 2017)
​Volume 6: (October 2018 - Present)


Long Form Stories

You like free? Yea, of course you do ya' cheap bastard. Take what you want, just don't look so damn suspicious while you do it
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Blondie Walker
Micro Fiction By J.J. Sinisi
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Mama always told me, men are good and bad, but if your blouse cut is low enough, they’ll all swallow their cigarettes if you ask pretty please. 

The Hardest Men
By J.J. Sinisi

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He laughed and the noise crashed around me in a steady, thunderous roll. 

“Is that all you got kid? The pillars of this city are ancient. Hard as brick and steel. And they’re stronger than any federal twit who thinks he can flash a badge and soften up the foundation.” 

He slapped the adjacent wall with an open palm. “Made of the hardest stuff in the world this city.”

The Tyranny of Defense
By J.J. Sinisi
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Timmy’s a real soldier, I tell her, fighting a real war in defense of a real nation. No snow on that battlefield. Timmy won’t understand. What I don’t ask her is why she doesn’t know this already. By now, I thought Timmy’s fists would’ve explained to her how he assigns blame in this world.
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