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Category Archives: William J Cobb Short Fiction
“The Sandblaster”: A New Short Story by William J. Cobb
I was working as a sandblaster on the coast of Texas, at an industrial park right off the Intracoastal Canal. A wasteland of bulldozers and cranes. Stacks of rusty metal pipes. A few scraggly palm trees, no grass, house or town within miles. That’s where I found her. Continue reading →
“The Wiggle Room”: A Short Story
Note: This story originally appeared in the online literary journal Solar, Spring 2022. For this one, if you think “genre,” think Gothic. It’s “Based on a True Story,” kind of. According to his father, the neighbors who lived in the … Continue reading →
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