Short Story
The suicidal tendencies of my neglected notebook
My notebook wrote this to me recently…
The Path Between Two Dogs
The still very young man took the staircase. There was nothing fanciful, it didn’t arc down with a grand flourish or bore in the way a submarine’s stairs do; it just fed down into the surface predictably and deliberately, one step at a time, carrying him closer to the sound of the train. A witness […]
From Adam to Atom
The frustration in Evalyn’s eyes was changing colors. She dangled, feet to the wind, beneath a plume of parachute. “Jonathon!” She tried to kick his apathetic limbs but couldn’t reach. He looked at her with a smile and joked about the loss of her shoe. “I’m serious, man. We’re stuck!” “Look, Evalyn. They told us […]
Flashbacks, What I Learn Today
The incredibly wonderland and extremely dynamic Sam Ligon Catapult flash fiction class
Assignment write 300 words in 30 minutes…can you believe it. I need to delete one word. But which word. I delete ‘will.’
My name is Judyth Emanuel and I wrote
When Teachers Have Guns or The 15 Minute School Day
Mr. V., are you drunk? Or are you just really unqualified to teach?
Heaven and Hell for Gerard
While mister and misses Clementine were waiting in the faintly yellow waiting room, the man started to scratch heavily behind his ear. He turned his head to the left so he would get the right spot. “Stop it Gerard, you’re making me nervous”, his wife said. Miss Clementine was a small woman, with a hair […]