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In case you missed any of the pieces we appeared during the 2026 FlashFlood, here's an index to everything.  Sadly, the 'Blog Archive' sidebar list maxes out at 100 titles per day, so use this as your guide to the complete 2026 Flood....

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2026 FlashFlood

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I wake up on this beach the day after my retirement party.  I reach for my last memories - the fizz of cheap prosecco and the hubbub of my colleagues’ good wishes. 

I look around, curious. This is like a child’s painting -- yellow sand and a blue sea mirroring a cloudless sky. There is a smooth rock, dished and inviting. I sit down.

The fine sand sparkles...

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Four.

You are at your uncle’s house and your parents said you could get a pet for your birthday. His dog had pups a few weeks ago and now you are surrounded in tan and white fur, cold noses and small paws pressing against you.

Fifteen.

You are at your first concert and the bass from the opener is vibrating in your sternum. The air smells of sweat and smok...


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Maya's father collected weather in Mason jars he kept along all the windowsills of their farmhouse, and she believed him, the way children believe in the weight of things they cannot see, a jar of October fog, a jar of the morning after her mother left, a jar he called the last good summer that he would hold to the light sometimes, just to watch it, but she stopped believing ...


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It's cliché. It's the only thing you see as you lie in  bed—that and the window. You can write about the window, and the squirrel that chastises you every morning because you have the audacity to live on a second floor. But don't write about the ceiling fan and the shadows it creates in the afternoon. The squirrel breaks your pots. It also sees you naked. Do you remember

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