Interleaved Letter Sequences (short-short stories)
/ˌin(t)ərˈlēv/ def: the interspersing of fields or channels of different meaning sequentially in memory.
* Not one of these characters is real. This is short fiction.
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Interleaving Letter Sequences of Your Mind
- Dead End (black ice)
- Two Senses Clash (anesthesia)
- White Ennui (a good job)
- Holding Space (an inhospitable place)
- Ecstacy of St. Francis (gentle mystic)
- A Chemistry of Spirits (memories and conversations)
- Walking Along the Edge (snow blind)
- Forget the Last Thing I Said (self)
- Woman Overwhelmed (furious patience)
- When In Paris (portrait of the artist)
- Generational Wealth (preschool friends)
- “I Don’t Have Orgasms,” She Said (online hookup)
- What Is It About New York? (aspirational growth)
- There Were No Wise Men (two asses talking)
- Skedaddle (on the volcano)
- Out the Window (harbinger of pain)
- Alexa Is Running the Show (adverse intelligence)
- Vape Vape Everything’s Fine (addiction)
- Blue Man Shopping (what’s the big idea)
- Dance Lesson No. 2 (smooth jazz)
- Crushing Static (torture and teeth)
- Neuroplasticity (and affirmations)
- In Other Words (duo lingo)
- Sublingual (word seeking)
- I Do Know It’s Me (naturally high)
- The Oddest Thing (practically sane)
- Pick and Choose (fatherless)
- Nothing On Pornhub (lesbian tendencies)
- The Metaverse Describes Itself (ChatGPT Gives It a Go)
- Her Love Was Strong (what are you drinking?)
- Deep Fake (looking in the wrong places)
- The Eyes Have It (lethal moments)
- Music In the Car (asimov’s gambit)
- Girl in the Pool (am I high or dreaming)
- A Moment Frozen in Time (the divorce brochure)
- Saying “I’m Sorry” Doesn’t Make it Better (don’t ask me again)
- Privacy Rising (your phone is bleeding) <hs>
- Now That I’ve Danced Myself Out of the Room (missing the big love)
- What Is Your Deepest Intention? (I’ve been good too long)
- Just In Time for the Butterflies (every ending is a new beginning)
- Learning Loneliness (seeking my own adventure)
- The Hidden Message (previous lovers)
- Your Halo Is Not Here (two women)
- Forgetting the Danger ( icy water)
- Pressure of Starlight (what is emerging)
- The Longest Last Winter Together (losing my head)
- Eloquence Lost (creative happiness)
- Out of the Loop (passing shots)
- I Can Be Whatever You Want (beginning and ending)
- The Mosquito (losing blood)
- If I Could Talk I’d Tell You (she forgot to mention)
- We’ll Always Have Nola (drinks in the quarter)
- Killing Starlings (we’re all mad here)
- The Last Amazing Cat (me and my shadow)
- Escape Velocity (darkness visible)
- Lover Falls (everyone loves a puppy)
- Sorry, Yes (a shaggy dog story)
- Misty Morning at the Lake (losing Vermont)
- A Few Lurid Details (quest for love)
- You Know They Put Wires In Your Heart, Right? (carto vizigo)
- Sons and Lovers (i still dream of your kiss)
- A Slow Bleeding Out (lover’s leap)
- Rather Not Write About Her (seeking release)
- I Want to Disappear (final respects)
- Telling Detail (that’s Mr. Bradbury to you)
- Doing What You Hate (emotional variability)
- The High Way (a new puppy)
- Sprint By Sprint (rehoming)
- The Luckiest Man Alive (is this your dog?)
- The Most Beautiful Girl’s Sadness (her hair, her hair was alive)
- “Sorry” Won’t Suffice (it’s not always about you)
- Losing Eva (i tried to be nice)
- A Dangerous View (snowbird)
- From the Flip Side (manager miscue)
- Satellites of Love (aglow in orbit)
- Flawed Treasure Maps (near misses at happiness)
- Listen to the Sound of My Voice ( illuminating ghosts)
- Behind My House (rain for days)
- The Empty Home of a Heart in Trouble* (love has nothing to do with it)
- Delays Expected (I have something to show you)
- The Future Is An Attitude (life at altitude)
- Coffee and Air Conditioning (baby, it’s hot outside)
- Something In the Way (let’s stay home tonight)
- Start at the Ending (don’t spoil it for me)
- Just Like Eating a Banana (ust a banana story)
- The Ping is the Thing (are you receiving me?)
- This Remains a Love Story (she’s around)
- International Cat Day (laughing with the dogs)
- The Monkeypox Roundtable (the girl with ja wobble)
- You’re On Mute (online dating)
- Translation Not Found (vacation complications)
- Unavoidable Trouble (musical cute girl)
- Early Riser (at the end of a marriage)
- Survival (nline dating — first date)
- Pixels of You (single dad and his daughter)
- Heart On (client-therapist privilege)
- Ambien and Me (closing moments of a relationship)
- Hawk Power (tennis fetish)
- Asimov’s Dream (golden opportunity)
- Heaven Is a Place (opening gambit of love)
- Only a Week Since My Lover Left (breakups are confusing)
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