Death of a Fairy
Snow lightly danced out of the sky, each flake choosing her finale carefully. Some wanted to leave an impression, and nestled on the ground with other flakes, hiding the grass. [...]
Full Story »I Am the Best Sloucher in the World
I can slouch whenever I want and nobody can tell me differently because I am the Sultan of Slouching. Not even old ladies carrying forty-thousand pounds of sawdust on their [...]
Full Story »The Game
So, this was how it was going to be? My God, I don’t even have the strength. Ten hours and 22 minutes of bodily pain, three different positions, [...]
Full Story »Anonymous
Times Square in the rain, in a bus, gliding through the crowds, Anonymous. They
wonder who we are rolling down their busy street. For a minute. There is [...]
The Punishment of Man
The Pacific Ocean roars beneath me. I stand on the edge of the overhang and look out as clouds gather against the horizon. Storm coming in for sure. A small [...]
Full Story »Running with the Bulls
“It feels different this time, don’t you think?”
I look up from my newspaper to Celeste who is standing with her back to me washing dishes. I know what she [...]
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 [...]