Stories
Fiction & Micro-Fiction
Pocket Dimension
Where had she put her reading glasses? Had she put them into her pocket dimension without thinking and then forgotten about it? She raised her left hand and waggled her fingers. A small portal no larger than a grapefruit opened up before her. It sparkled around the...
The Room
The light pooled into the room for the first time. The room itself had been conceived by an alien race in the heart of a black hole. Then it was harvested, like a fruit, from that black hole, a feat once thought impossible. The room was then taken to a space station...
The Transformation
He thought it could never happen to him. But here he was, standing in front the mirror, sporting two, new, fully grown horns about 3 inches in length. His teeth had been reshaped into razor points. And he didn't even want to acknowledge what had happened to the rest...
Coffee Isn’t Just for Humans Anymore
She forgot to buy the coffee. She could have kicked herself for forgetting, but it wasn't terribly surprising that she did. The morning had progressed in anything but a smooth manner from the time her alarm went off to her approach to the office park now. The dog had...
Reanimation
I need to tell somebody what I've done, but I don't know who to turn to. I doubt anyone would believe me. And if they did, I'm afraid the news would get out, and I would suddenly become a specimen to be analyzed and dissected -- figuratively by the public, literally...
The Replicas
There were too many people in the room. Jared knew it before he even set foot in the room, but he was compelled to enter anyway. And he regretted it the moment he did. He avoided looking at anyone. Instead, he shuffled to one side of the room and took up a spot along...
Rain
The rain started today. Again. And it wasn't just a little sprinkle, either. It was a positive deluge, as is normal on this planet. We have 240 days in our yearly cycle, and it rains here for 239 of those days. We get one day of dry and sunny every year, and I missed...
Vortex
"The next 30 minutes will change everything!" I shouted, as the vortex whirled and swirled in front of us. We'd created the thing using archaic technology that somehow came together to form a whirlpool of light -- purple and pink and orange. We didn't know that it...
The Mountain
"Getting old," the mountain grumbled. It had been sitting in place for thousands of years. Weather had eroded its face, so that it was pockmarked and worn. Snow capped its head, while trees adorned its feet. "Time to go for a walk," it rumbled to itself. It lifted its...