Fiction
Never Quiet Again
“It’s not that we don’t remember what it was like before the sound. If you asked us, we could tell you.”
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Disco Novel
They want to be, they want to be, The BPM. Their need, every Saturday night. A living runway where you can take off from under their feet. The circles around me, move. It is unclear. I feel as though I am on a fairground ride. I am hanging on, but I am perched. I take […]
There Are Worse Things Than Money
“Don’t get pimply before a trial. It’s a sign of stress. They’ll think you’re lying.”
The Old Man and the Room
He was literally a polymath. A book and a packet of cigarettes were all that he wanted.
Perception
He had stepped back, and then forward, squinting carefully to discern different brushstrokes. By changing his perspective, he hoped to find the trick that revealed each piece’s significance. The inhumanly smooth paint told him nothing.
“My Insufferable Nemesis”
In London’s Highgate Cemetery, a restless spirit guides the reader to a well-visited corner where a troubling secret is revealed
“The Knowledge”
“Do you want to know a secret?” the man asks. I look around the pub, slightly bemused by the question. “Well, do you?” he insists. He glares at me as if his life depends on an immediate answer. I put my smartphone down and smile vaguely in his direction. He moves closer to me. “There […]
A Death March to Fulfillment
Their comfortable, dispassionate partnership soothed their aching feet and cushioned their joints, ailments that had become emotional side effects of success and that death march to fulfillment.
An Oddity at The Smith Residence
One night, in a small Mormon town in central Utah, an alien planted a seed in the Smith family’s backyard. About a week later, something started coming out of the ground. At first it looked like a magic 8 ball emerging. The house dog was the first one to find it. She sniffed it but […]