281/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
A flash tale on the importance of paying attention while biking.
280/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
This story falls squarely in literary fiction, and I’m not sure I’ll describe it properly, but here goes: The devil is always there, waiting for his opening, but the faster you pedal the easier you can escape him.
That description doesn’t do the story justice. You should read it.
279/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
Marie’s son takes away her driver’s license, saying she isn’t fit for the road anymore. But that isn’t going to keep the 90-something-year-old stuck in her house. She used to ride her bicycle everywhere as a kid so she decides to go for a ride on a bike that her great-granddaughter stores in Marie’s garage. What could go wrong?
This is a delightful story.
277/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
A bicycle-riding Mormon missionary comes to Oklahoma and gets caught in the winds of a wildfire.
276/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
This is a short story written as a poem about a bike rider desperately trying to escape his (paranormal?) pursuers.
275/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
This is a lovely story about a widow and how she spends her time now that her husband is gone, doing things they did together, like gardening and biking. This description makes the story seem like not much, but it’s so very good in a quiet way – readable and calming and truly lovely.
274/366
From Ride 2: More Short Fiction About Bicycles (Edited by Keith Snyder) (Typeflow, Inc. 2012)
A story that’s hard to describe. For all his life, the unnamed main character craves speed, movement, escape – all of which he gets from cycling. When he enters a relationship with a woman who prompts him to adjust his lifestyle, he does, for a while, but only for a while, until his true self forces its way out.
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