After Dinner
The intention had been for a celebratory evening. But in the taxi, on the ride home at the close of the night, silence prevailed and neither Eric nor Nedra felt [...]
Full Story »TLC: Tender Loving Care
‘So how’s Gilda doing today, Grace?’ Mrs Cooper asked.
‘Last night we thought she was a goner,’ said nurse Grace, as blunt as ever, ‘but she’s hanging on. She’s a fighter.’
‘She [...]
Fennizwig Lilly (part 2)
The city of Rosedale Palm was the kind of place not even a cockroach would go to die. The cloud of pollution that engulfed its streets blotted out the sky [...]
Full Story »Into the Night
Kyle had always been a levelheaded type of person. The difference between dreams and reality was never blurred for him; it was a crystal clear barrier distinctly separating two states [...]
Full Story »The Hunter
The Hunter crouched in the soft brisk snow. The light from the fading sun, already a gentile purple, brushed the tops of the unclothed trees, their leaves had [...]
Full Story »Seventeen
An alarm sounds in the distance. Buzzing, barking, mauling the intricate silence of my slumber. My eyes wretch open much like a bird’s long retired wings — slowly and [...]
Full Story »Martha
In short, Martha is a librarian. Her life is lived according to achievable goals, won through repetition and ritual that give order and meaning to her tidy existence.
At 5 [...]
Linen (part 1)
May 24, 1986 – A woman and an infant were found stabbed to death in their California home on Friday. The two were found wrapped tightly in bedsheets in the [...]
Full Story »The Time Traveler’s Ex-Wife
He materialized naked and shivering like he always did, his head swimming with the dizziness and disorientation that was common with the time shift. As it passed he felt a [...]
Full Story »Growing Up Racist
“Hating an entire group of people based on what you know of their actions, is not racist,” She said with maniacal sincerity, “Only blind hatred of color, without regard to [...]
Full Story »First Gate (part 4)
She was getting worse. Rubbing the bruise that had formed into a peculiar rounded spot – it branched out in rays like a warped sun – Yamamoto sat behind his [...]
Full Story »Saeta Hodie, Absentis Cras: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
-An obituary and a eulogy to my hairline, whom I’ll miss.
Jordan Elaine Troublefield was born March 13th, 1988 on a Sunday; his hair wouldn’t show ‘til 4 months after. Immediately [...]