Jen Harvey

Short Story

  • Crabs

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    Jen

    This story was first published by Visual Verse. You can read it there or listen to me read it for you.     Podcast music via FreeSFX

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  • Ten Stories High

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    Jen

    ONE Somewhere out there, someone else is sitting at a window, thinking the same thing. It was probability. All those people, packed in tight together. Experiencing the same things, at the same time, in the same place. Some of them were going to start thinking the same. Collective consciousness. He’d read about that someplace. Most

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  • Eastern Transept

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    Jen

    You can listen to John Severity read my story over at the Mash Stories Soundcloud Podcast   The morning sun filtered through the window of the eastern transept, light falling on the nave like a ray of gold that had descended from the heavens. No doubt they had planned for it. Had configured their measurements

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  • Pebbles And Shells

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    Jen

    We traded pebbles and shells. For one pink scallop I gave you five stones polished smooth by waves. They glistened in your open palm. All day we played on the beach, our parents somewhere far off. Away, beyond the glint of sun and silhouettes, where they could not be seen. I had thought I could

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  • Julia’s Garden

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    Jen

    They served her notice. In three days they would come to clear it away. It was dangerous, they said. A public nuisance, they said. People could trip and fall, they said. It had to go. More than once they said that. But she had watched them, these hapless pedestrians. Ambling down the street, minding their

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