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JS O’KEEFE: Distance

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The guide told me we were already five hundred miles from civilization, four hundred miles from everything else. Any particular reason going further?

Next day I footslogged several miles alone, as many as my restive feet could carry me. I looked around and recognized the very place I always belonged.

J. S. O’Keefe is a scientist, trilingual translator, and writer. His short stories and poems have been published in Everyday Fiction, Roi Faineant, 101 Words, Spillwords, ScribesMICRO, 50WS, AntipodeanSF, Friday Flash Fiction, Spirit Fire Review, Medium, Paragraph Planet, WENSUM, 6S, Satire, MMM, etc.

DEANNA VAUGHN: Lost

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Where was she? Did she take a wrong turn? What mountain road was this? No cell service here.

She grabbed “emergency” boots, coat, hat, and gloves from the truck, then pushed the door open and jumped.

She fell backwards into the snow like an angel and remembered her childhood sky.

Deanna is an enthusiastic reader who has no aspirations, ambitions, or talent to be a writer. She has spent years with her nose in books, taking the words from them. She likes to think that writing 50-word stories is a way of giving them back, 50 at a time.