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Review – The Obituarist 3: Delete Your Account by Patrick O’Duffy

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Lexifab

Kendall Barber, the digital-life “obituarist” who cleans up and closes the online accounts of the recently-departed, is a real piece of crap human being, as amply demonstrated in the first two volumes of this series, The Obituarist and The Obituarist … Continue reading →

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Friday flash fiction – Stay Out of the Kitchen

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Lexifab

In moonlight, Chef Bela’s Gastronomy Pod looks like a giant silver snail, sliming up Crabtree Park. Vincent Pankhurst sneers at the chrome striping, the hand-chalked menu, and especially the inelegant student-artist caricature of the food van’s owner. The gap-toothed cartoon … Continue reading →

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Friday Flash Fiction – The High Ground

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Lexifab

Dirty water laps at the edge of the corrugated tin roof as Craig searches the sky again. The rescue chopper is nowhere to be seen against the boiling black clouds. Thunder cracks and the rain is hitting him like a … Continue reading →

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Friday flash fiction – The Ninja Fireys’ Big Score

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Lexifab

When Johnno picks them up for the gig in a stolen fire truck, Dicko and Kat get their first inkling it’s going to blow up like a highway cane toad. “Mate, where did you get this?” asks Dicko as they … Continue reading →

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Friday flash fiction – The View from a Pole

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Lexifab

Glenn’s cough is spasm-‘til-you-drop violent; he almost loses his grip. He clenches up with his arms and knees around the power pole, feels a caffeine-kick of panic at the hint of a slide. The wind whips around him, shivering the … Continue reading →

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