What Are You Afraid Of? – Part Four
Short Story “What happened?” She rubbed her forehead and sighed. What HAD happened? It had seemed like a perfectly innocuous evening… Sprawled on the floor, with yarn, glue and glitter around her, Maura...
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Summer Camp Surprise
Short Story Rachel waddled down the dirt path to the port-a-potty and flung the door open. The smell slapped her in the face and escaped with such force she actually stepped out of...
Trial and Bearer – Part One
Short Story About Cancer September 17th, 2018 Press Conference, New York City Owen tightened his jacket to his neck one last time, forced his dark brown bangs over his cow lick and took...
What Are You Afraid Of? – Part Three
Modern Fable “What sort of things would you say to yourself?” She smiled wryly. She’d been aware of her inner monologue for so long that it was like remembering the meeting of an...
A Night in the Sand
Romance Short Fiction It was the time of day, ripe with indecision. The sun was still peering over the horizon, and sunglasses or headlights were both viable options. The sky dripped color through...
Abandonment – Part Four
Serial Fiction “I like Taylor, but he doesn’t really know his place.” “Yeah, you can tell he’s more of a follower.” “I totally understand what you’re saying.” Nathan’s heavy eyes quickly, forcibly widened as...
It’s Still Snowing
Short Stories I wake up as I usually do: hitting the snooze button at least four times, groaning as I roll over to quell the infernal blare of trumpets that compose my morning...
What Are You Afraid Of? – Part Two
Short Story “Is there a way you could avoid triggers?” She had to admit, that sometimes…she could. For example, scary movies, even the lamest kind, dropped silently into her bloodstream like food color...
Animal Dilemmas – Cheetah Hyena
Short Story After defeating and chasing away the Crocodile, the hyenas were ecstatic. They spend two days camping around the Zebra’s corpse until they licked away every last drop of dried blood from its...
Irony and My Grandmother – Part One
Period Short Stories Irony is a funny thing. My mother’s mother, Marianna Chapman Landrum, was born on January 16, 1923, in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Her name came from both of her grandmothers: Mary...
Man in the Mirror
Short Story His grin, that’s the worst part. It was both alien and familiar; a poorly drawn self portrait. It was too perfect to the point of being unsettling. I couldn’t find a...
Meta or: How I feel after 20,000 words
Meta Fiction “I am a pretentious wretch.” he wrote at the top of the white legal pad. He was smiling; nearly giggling at how much he thought himself to be so. “This collection...
