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		<title>Moving Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve moved, hopefully for the final time, before I start feeling like a college student lugging boxes upstairs and down every six months. You can find my new site with flash fiction for the cocktail hour and my resurrected blog at: SuburbanNoir.com<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1111&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction: 5th and Final Episode</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathryn Grant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cathryn Grant A short story serialized in five episodes. Read previous episodes: Episode 1. Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4. In the kitchen, Marissa and her support staff were too busy with their knives and slotted spoons and vats of sauce to look at her. She went into back room where fish was prepared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1104&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction: Episode 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cathryn Grant A short story serialized in five episodes. Read previous episodes: Episode 1. Episode 2, Episode 3. Suddenly Gordon’s thick fingers slipped under the hem of Zyra’s skirt. She stepped back. “What are you doing? Stop it.” “You’re so sweet. Good enough to eat.” “If you touch me again, I’ll tell Marissa.” He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1097&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction: Episode 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathryn Grant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cathryn Grant A short story serialized in five episodes. Read previous episodes: Episode 1. Episode 2. Zyra smiled hopefully at the couple. “What do you recommend?” said the man. This was the question she longed to hear every evening, an open door, inviting her to defend the slaughtered creatures lying on ice slabs in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1088&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction: Episode 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cathryn Grant A short story serialized in five episodes. Read Episode 1 here. “I’ll have the bisque,” said the woman. The man held up two fingers, indicating he’d have the same. “And for our entrees tonight &#8230;” “Later. We’ll order a bottle of Sonoma Cutrer Chardonnay. You can tell us about the entrees later,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1075&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction: Episode 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathryn Grant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 2010 is filled with family reunions and house guests, so I&#8217;m trying something a little different that will give me a bit of breathing room. Instead of a weekly shot of flash fiction, I&#8217;m serializing a short story I wrote about six months ago. This story percolated in my mind for several years after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1066&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Cocktail Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There won&#8217;t be any flash fiction for the cocktail hour today. I&#8217;m busy working on my new website. So far, one man with two advanced degrees, one woman with a B.A. and fifteen years working in high tech, and approximately six hours just getting the technical details worked out for hosting my new site. Lots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1064&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, not seeing had never been a problem for Marie. Her parents raised her to believe she could have anything a seeing person could. Rather, she could have anything a seeing person found meaningful. She couldn’t drive a car. She probably wouldn’t ever play golf, but who would want to? She had a satisfying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1051&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tranquility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every morning at six George spread the newspaper on the kitchen table. He slurped his coffee and enjoyed the only moments of tranquility his life had to offer. The remainder of each day was consumed by demanding employees, followed by requests, complaints and musings from his wife, and monologues from his children. But from six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reverberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathryn Grant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firecrackers popped like gunfire. Bruce hated those noises. He turned on his side and slipped his arm around his wife’s naked waist. It felt so good to lie with her, covered with nothing but a sheet. The air barely moved outside the window. He’d always hated this holiday. It was animalistic, the glorification of war. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cathryngrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7874750&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=cathryngrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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