Ulysses Tuggy

Joined June 2022

31 stories

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Educator, gardener, Dungeon Master, and novelist. Author of the near-future mecha science fiction novels Tulpa Uprising, Tulpa War, and Tulpa Rebirth. Candidly carries Cassandra's curse.

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Racing Dreams
Maya loved weekend walks down the trail behind her house in Fayette County, Kentucky. After a rained-in week of school and two stormy weekends in a row keeping her indoors, she could not be happier about the first Saturday of April being so sunny and bright.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
Sympathy
My five-year-old son held his first puppy in his outstretched arms. Their eyes met. He brought his puppy closer. The puppy licked his face.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
First Day
Today, you were born. We all cried for different reasons. As you sleep in mama's arms, I now write this for you. Your first day isn't fun for any of us, but we await your first smile.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
Fogged Window
The car window was fogged over. The world outside was passing by like a misty dream. Watery beads streaked down from high on the right toward low on the left.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Poets
Welcome Back
What was I just thinking about? My thoughts stretch with my slowing breaths until I forget where they started. I return to my tiny desk, still there, decades later.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
Feint and Dodge
My favorite minimum wage job was the one that almost killed me a few times. Do you know the difference between attempted vehicular homicide and attempted vehicular manslaughter?
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Confessions
Fox Three
Fox Three was born at 1.5 times the speed of sound. His spring-loaded launcher ejected him down mother's spring-loaded rail with sufficient force to snap the umbilical cable, severing him away.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
Not a Robot
The mirror showed a reflection that wasn't my own. I had bought many faces over the years, but that thing looking back at me from the mirror didn't look like any of them.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
Walking Fish
Once there were fish that left the sea and crawled onto dry land they had children that grew legs, big brains, and thumbs on each hand
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Poets
You Better Work
You better get up, clean up, eat up, and get out the door commute to work, day after day, for years, maybe threescore and on your death bed
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Poets
Dancing Diva
Once there was a rich little girl named Izzy who kept her parents and servants alike oh so busy meeting her demands, always at her beck and call.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction
Come Eat My Dreams
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. For Phil, such was the sign of a well-ran dream refinery.
By Ulysses Tuggy3 years ago in Fiction

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Racing Dreams

Sympathy

First Day

Fogged Window

Welcome Back

Feint and Dodge

Fox Three

Not a Robot

Walking Fish

You Better Work

Dancing Diva

Come Eat My Dreams

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