Category: Short Stories

Duck Flock, short story about farm animals 2

Animal Dilemmas – Duck Cow

Short Story The cow had a very similar mind set to that of the sheep it had just left bewildered. It chewed grass or fodder all day, processed the ingested plants and relieved itself...

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Focus

Short Fiction   As usual I wake five minutes before the alarm. I turn it off, so as not to disturb Freya, who has another half hour before she has to get up and...

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Zedlist – Part Four

Kevin went white, took a sip from his mug and choked on his coffee, losing composure and spluttering the muddy liquid onto the man’s coat. It looked very much at home in the matted...

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Monday Morning Blood

Short Story   There were three that Monday morning. One wore black leather pumps and a herringbone twill checkered black and white tailored suit with French chocolate stockings. The other one had on a...

short story about animal farm, Animal Dilemmas – Sheep Caw 2

Animal Dilemmas – Sheep Cow

Short Story After unknowingly nearly killing the snail the Sheep settled on what it did best – munching green grass. Gnawing on the moist juicy grass was what most sheep did all day long. They...

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Wondering

I wondered for a long while afterwards what he meant. Some nights I will sit up after wrestling out of a dream and I see his drawn, pale face and those dark eyes and...

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Zedlist – Part Three

“RISING TEENAGE RAP STAR STABBED TO DEATH AT FRIEND’S MEMORIAL SERVICE.” Kevin vaguely recognised the angry looking young man on the front page – one of the many celebrities he had seen before, but...

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Animal Dilemmas – Sheep Snail

Short Story Spring came and melted away all the grey from the rocky hill. The Snail woke up and un-wedged itself from in-between the two boulders, climbed the taller one and took a wide...