You Can Call It a Love Story
“It’s never a good time for a giant space lizard to attack.” That’s Embry’s clever response. And he is quite right; there’s never a good time for a giant space […]
Category Archives: Short Stories
Out of Time
So I finally said, “Well, I’ve had a quite enough of this.” And, boy had I. But they were not expecting that response. “What did you just say?” They continued […]
The Paper Boy
“They called me a magnate tonight,” he said, as he ducked his narrow, hatted head below the bannister, searching for Meredith in the dusty attic. “What?” “A magnate. They called […]
The Shift
I was sixteen when I felt the world shift for the first time. They all say I’m crazy but I know what I felt. I know what happened… or at […]
Ten Times a Failure
There’s a certain amount of failure that we, as adults, become accustomed to. It’s part of becoming an adult. We fail in love, we fail in school, we fail in […]
Evelyn’s Brooch
The porcelain brooch was first purchased by Evelyn DeMuere, who was widely known to have had odd and horrible taste, in 1893, at a small shop called Mollycoddle, at the […]
Me at 36
As our story begins, Danny Ward is 36 years old and standing in the shower in his parent’s new apartment in downtown Detroit. It’s two days after Christmas. And last […]
The Namesake
Here I sit and recount the final tale of the original Ethan Weatherby. I didn’t know him personally. I‘ve only collected that which can still be discovered from those that […]
A Mind
As the alarm went off, the algorithms that directed Trevor to sit up, grab his glasses, sip his water and eventually slide his feet in his slippers, began running their […]
To Jack
Embry normally loved crying on the subway – the solitude of it, the isolation of it. He’d look people right in the eyes, through his tears, challenging them to ask […]
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