[12] Travel Size Stories

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This sampling of motel flash fiction was collected for the fantastic new Listen, Rinse, Repeat Podcast, which was conceived in response to the peculiarities of our time: stories that run about as long as it takes to wash your hands. Some of these stories have been published over there already so check them out!

And get those hands clean folks! Stay safe.

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Cloud Particles, Room 101

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After receiving strange postcards from his old pal Ahab Cloud, Jack tracks him down at the former site of the Motel Americana to confront him about the theft of The Knee. Technically a preface to the forthcoming story Oscar called The Double, this account runs longer than the actual tale and arguably stands as a motel tale unto itself.

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Chapter 7. Choir of Phantoms

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When it occurred to Lindsey that the motel standing before her represented her last resort, she found the pun already caught up in her web of thoughts. The phrase turned over in her mind compulsively, and ultimately produced the notion that, in some other life, if she owned a place like this, that’s what she’d name it, The Last Resort. And in a half-hearted attempt at smarm-adman inflection she said aloud to no one, An all-inclusive vacationland for addicts, low-lifes, and sex trade entrepreneurs.

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