Michael Sean Erickson

• Nov-2012
• / Christian
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For a while, it is just a sloppy sombrero like all the others in Burrito Land, as if shaped on a conveyor belt somewhere and handed out at a soup kitchen. It is a souvenir of thoughtless charity, the kind that offers no regard to the particular birth...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Delbert has captured something. It is the most sublime moment in his lifetime; the perfect alignment of his passions and his dreams, as if every twinkling star in the endless stretch of blackness above him all of a sudden converges into the singular ...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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There is a moment in every person's life (or maybe afterlife is the better word here) when he or she realizes that there is no more time to right the wrongs of the past. No matter how much we may struggle, or scheme, or even pray, every game of chess...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Have you ever driven down a long and windy road; eyes half shut after dark; window cranked open just to keep you awake; and noticed afterward that the many hours of night travel seemed to go by as if no more than a few minutes? Don't you realize that...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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A wise ass once said that you can experience an eternity in a moment of time. I'm not so sure if even God can squeeze an eternity into a blink of an eye; but perhaps He can do so in the span of twelve minutes. Certainly that is what our hero fears, a...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Open your imagination. Face your fears. Listen to the boogeyman howling in the wind outside your bedroom window. You may be in the throes of a dream just then. Or perhaps you are in that strange twilight between asleep and awake. Regardless, you are ...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Grace Temple is a free spirited woman who commits herself to the protection of her friend's daughter. Shirley Temple is a pint sized innocent who tries to find her own bearings in a life lived on the road. Abigail Spencer is a strong woman willing to...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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Max Gunn is a man haunted by a sad and vicious past. He wants to bury it in the sand somewhere. Hide it beneath the glare of a desert moon, clean his callused hands, and then return to the good and prosperous life he has carved out for himself. He ca...

• Jan-2016
• / General Fiction
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We all have a private space. It may be the inside of our bedroom after hours. It may be the inside of our automobile, when driving down a two-lane highway to nowhere. Or maybe, it is that inscrutable part of our psyches that even our loved ones find ...

• Nov-2016
• / Horror
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We are all afraid of the dark sometimes. There are monsters lurking in dark corners. There are beasts sifting in and out of our nightmares. Without the distractions of daytime, our troubles loom before us as triumphant. The question is to what length...

• Mar-2017
• / Horror
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Turn off your lights on a dark and snowy night. Cover your windows. Bolt lock your doors. Finally, when you believe your home is as secure as it can be, hide under your bed sheets. This may sound childish for anyone over the age of five; but you will...