Short Story
Scribblings
When the scholar began reading between the lines, he was at first shocked by the plaintive simplicity of the hidden messages, then frustrated, then eventually bored as he inscribed them by hand.
København
I saw a girl on the street who looked like you. It was the curly hair and the way she concentrated intensely on her camera as she photographed children playing at the Tivoli gardens. Even though I’ve never seen you with a camera. Do you remember the night we made love on my terrace? We […]
What Happens in the Ever After?
Growing up on a steady diet of rom-com movies and romantic novels, I waited for the magical day I turned sixteen. I was convinced that like Liesl Von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music’, when I was “16 going on 17” I’d meet the love of my life. I would dance with him in the […]
Destiny on Default
I never believed in destiny, because I didn’t want to believe that anything other than I, could control my fate. But these days, I find myself wishing on stars, avoiding walking under ladders and carefully blowing eyelashes. With every wish, I close my eyes and let all my hope gather in the entirety of my […]
The Coolgaardie Gallahs
we don’t like honest, we like to think we’re better than we are.
Extraterrestrial Recycling
I gaze up at the dark, gloomy sky, its blackened clouds towering overhead. Suddenly…. BOOM! The clouds break apart, and a mysterious vehicle heads toward the city of New York. Red, thin, lasers shoot out from the wheels, and citizens let out bloodcurdling screams. I scream along, and scramble to the other side of the bridge. A deafening boom […]
Perhaps Also Broken
“This game was one in a series of battles stretching into eternity.”
And Our Fathers, Who Are They?
He had started his murder spree on the very night I was born.