Category: Fiction
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Ooonh
Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! Oooonh Ooonh Ooooonh Oooonh! The heavy repetitive sound of synth bass came thundering through the floor and try as he might Charles could not tune it out. Earplugs didn’t help, he could still feel the vibrations in the pit of his stomach churning…
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Slaying Dragons
Hi Robin, Please do not set up your purchase events so every individual purchase creates a new uniquely named event. That would break everything. Or at least lots of things. There’s at least a 5% chance it would cause the extinction of some unspeakably cute animal that has thus far eluded modern science. Stars might…
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Super
The line for the movie stretched around the block but Annette was giddy with excitement. She had been waiting for years for this film and was in full fangirl mode. Better yet, Matt had agreed to come with her, even though he wasn’t a fan of the comic. As the clock struck 11 with just…
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Peachy
The riots had been going on for days and, while Mo disliked the new government as much as the next guy, he was getting tired of living in a war zone. Every wave of protests brought a wave of repression and new deaths, spurring another wave of protests. The air was crisp and sharp –…
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Perfect
A bright green water bottle lay on its side on his otherwise immaculate desk, lid off. The laptop was almost certainly fried – he hadn’t been fast enough to stop the water from getting into it. Perfect. Absolutely f—ing perfect. The real danger of course with wet circuitry isn’t the water itself – it’s the…
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Jacob
Jacob was having a great day. One of those days that you look back on for years and remember as a perfect moment of happiness. After months of thinking and planning about how to ask Katy to marry him he’d just blurted it out as he drove her to work. To his great surprise, the…
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An Open Road
I’ve always found the freedom of the open road to be both terrifying and liberating. It was the first thing he’d said in hours and it startled her out of her own thoughts. They had been driving for 2 days straight now and barely spoken a word, each of them intent on leaving their old…
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Dishes
When she came into the room he was staring into the mirror with a look on his face like a kid who’d dropped their ice cream into a mud puddle. Just look at me! Yellow teeth, flabby gut, going bald in the back. I’m a complete mess. If I was a girl there’s no way…
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Tacos!
Tacos!!! She said the word like it was the ultimate answer and within it he could find any truth he might seek. Her eyes shone with laughter at the look on his face and he smiled back. He hadn’t been sure about being a father and still lost sleep most nights worrying about whether he…
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Sunshine
Grey clouds still obscured the sky but the day was finally getting warmer, and about time too! After months of a spring that felt more like winter, John was ready for a little sunshine. The weather forecast all week had been sunny but so far the clouds had managed to maintain their grip on the…
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Stories
I’ve done a lot of writing over the years but the form has shifted. I wrote hundreds of songs and poems throughout my 20’s, then a bunch of technical writing and blogging on the tech industry for work starting in 2010, and now I find myself writing a lot of short stories for practice setting…