Stories
Fiction & Micro-Fiction
The Scratch
It started out as a scratch. A cat scratch, at that. The crazy kitty lanced a slash across my forearm that was deep enough to bleed. I washed it with soap and water and thought that was the end of it. Then I woke up in the night to the scratch burning and itching like...
Singing in the Dark
I walked narrow, dusky corridors alone. I no longer heard your laugh, but somehow I knew you were okay. You were built for these passageways, in a way I never was. I knew I’d find you eventually, though. It was just a matter of time and patience. Then I heard your...
Blob
Expelled. That was the only word Jace could think of as he heaved the large, blackish-brown mass out of his stomach and onto the ground. It smelled like toxic waste and looked even worse. And just seconds before, that thing had been inside of him. He suppressed a...
Boats
The boats on the river. Each is adorned with a unique array of finery, showing off the arts and skills of the designers that decorated it. One boat is a forest scene, complete with lifelike woodland animals. Another is a field, with crops growing in rows. Still...
Spirits in the Fields
Beware the cornfields. Sinister spirits flock there at night, barely luminous among the stalks and leaves. They have faces of women, eyes bleeding pungent tears, teeth like knives. Their bodies are phantoms, tapering off until there is nothing there. They look out at...
Monster
It is an abomination. A creature straight out of nightmare. It has the head and body of a cat, the tail of a scorpion, legs of a spider, and claws like a lobster. It skitters across the ceiling of the ancient, buried temple, seemingly unaware of gravity. There is very...
Nova
Awe-inspiring. The nova was a brilliant, glorious phenomenon, all red and blue energy as the white dwarf star suctioned matter from its red supergiant companion. Then it blasted off in a furious explosion, creating a gaseous cloud visible throughout the galaxy....
The Collapse
And then there was one. For forever, that is, for the entire length of recorded time, the multiverse expanded into trillions of disparate universes. Each was separated from the others by the slimmest barrier of cosmic energy. The universes existed inside their own...
Moon Sprites
"Full moon tonight." "Yup." "You know what that means...." "Yup. Werewolves." "No, silly. Moon sprites." "Moon... sprites." "Yes, moon sprites!" "What are moon sprites?" "You know, you put water out under the full moon, then the moon sprites come and dance and play in...