The Big Adventure
“Hey dork, it’s 2 in the afternoon. Why are you in a sleeping bag?” “Nuh-uh, it’s a submarine. I call it The Big Adventure.” “Big adventure, huh, in the middle…
The Dressmaker's Line
“The blue lace offsets your eyes.” The dressmaker smiled politely as one of the customers in her shop wandered through the aisles of fabrics and dresses. The…
The Basement
You enter the basement over a small staircase you did not saw before. It is colder than in the rest of the house. Like a wave of sound you hear the clicking…
Third Option
Once trembling and limp, she rose taut and lithe. Pain from countless bruises and deeper insults ebbed, replaced with a knowing numbness. All that remained was…
In a Dark Garden
Scrambling in silent slow motion she made her way through a labyrinth of dusty boxes and pipework. The boarding school basement closed around her, a cold grip…
The Mirror
There is a girl, carrying a mirror down to her basement. She isn’t going to look at it, she hardly ever does; she never likes what she sees in it anyway. Its…
Locked Away Part.2
I had unlocked the basement door, a lingering smell of shit and piss. I wish she would just hold it in; for once no one wants to take care of her shit. She sat…
Glowing Rocks (Porch Stories)
The officer stood with his mouth agape. He could not believe what he was seeing. He composed himself seconds before the others came into George’s basement…
That Deep End (Part 2)
I followed him down the creaking steps. The stairs seemed to go on forever. It was if i was walking down the Eifel Tower in one set of stairs. When i realized…
Talking Burgers and Fat Losers
Meanwhile, far away, in the basement of his mother’s house, sat Carl McGlave, unwrapping his trillionth Big Mac from its wrapping, while playing Call of Duty 5…
Granny's Botulism Brew
“I thought canning food was for a season, like over the winter, not for 30 years!” I hefted a jar of red stuff with tiny yellow seeds and big black spots, it’s…