A pathetic escape
It was too late to block the door so I went for the stairs, my tears making a fog of the room. I paused to reclaim my gun, the broken fox dropped, its glass…
Akheloios
56 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2011, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Lassie, don't come home.
The scratching woke me even through the furniture barricading the door. Alone in the house, only I had made it back to our cottage in the hills. They’d killed…
La Divina Commedia II
Virgil pointed at the low houses, built of white adobe, that lined the black sanded beach. Then up further, to the neat rows of vines that laced the hillside…
A young man's confession.
“Dad?” “Yes, Luke?” “You know that when I went off to College, you said that if I ever found something out about myself, you’d understand, still love me, no…
Craigslist
los angeles craigslist > for sale / wanted > baby & kid stuff Hemmingway’s entry to a short fiction contest on the subject of sadness and loss is possibly the…
Kitten adopted
His thrift store clothes, threadbare tweed trousers and linen shirt, too large for his thin body, lay scattered around the room. I gazed down at the wiry…
It started in darkness
I’d first noticed something was wrong when it went black, not the black of house lights off, but the darkness that comes from no light at all, no glow of…
Bbbbb!
But braggart biographers beget bawdy Bacchanalian books, bedecked by bravely bathetic Baudelairean bards, becalmed beings broken beyond brilliance.
Mummy, daddy, I want to be a dolphin.
The implantation of one half of an entangled pair into each individual neuron at the 63rd day after conception is key. Earlier and we lack enough implanted…
Breaking free.
I stand here, looking down from the bridge to the swirling dark waters below and wonder, what did I do wrong? What did I do that made life unbearable, friends…
Things to do on a rainy day
I sang the ritual and poured the blood within the Circle Inferior about me. The Greek and Sanskrit symbols of the Circle Superior glowing as they drew power…
Poor Vlad
While he had raised the age where the blood tax came into effect. Instituted the first national anemia health checks and provided a subsidised supply of…
The task at hand
The house was large, I climbed the steps up to the front door and rang the bell. The girl who answered it was a few years older then me, dressed in jeans and a…
Picking up tools.
Depot 376 was a grim concrete building hiding under flaking white paint. Inside was warmer, though it tried to lie with more white and blue. The man behind the…
Depot run
I listened to the man in front of me on the bus. I guess he must choose to drink a lot of music jobs as he apparently owned his own guitar. His fingers running…
Picking up tools.
Depot 376 was a grim concrete building hiding under flaking white paint. Inside was warmer, though it tried to lie with more white and blue. The man behind the…
Depot run
I listened to the man in front of me on the bus. I guess he must choose to drink a lot of music jobs as he apparently owned his own guitar. His fingers running…
CSI : Norman London
“Hell, another murder. If we don’t find who did this, Lord Jameson is going to have our heads.” “Any ideas Robert?” “We could try Forensics.” “Popperian…
The Plan
Caion smiled and sat back from his computer, the fools wouldn’t know what they were doing. Lured by his brilliant prose about the advantages of stickers in…
The Message.
Crack The whip sang as it lay across Martin’s back. “This will teach you to take more than one toilet break a day, lazy code-monkey!” Life had been hard for…