Short Fiction

Out of Place

March 28th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 28th, 2014

A Story Each Day

She had a ferocious personality that would bite back with a brutal honesty. The kind that was unexpected from someone with her…

Subway Mural

March 27th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 27th, 2014

A Story Each Day

I stepped onto the subway, trying to avoid that awkward eye contact, while still managing to scan the crowd for familiar faces. Of…

Impervious to Avalanches

March 26th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 26th, 2014

A Story Each Day

It’s the feeling that I imagine would engulf you if you were to somehow be frozen in the middle of a tidal wave or…

“I’m Really Gonna Go For It This Time”

March 25th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 25th, 2014

A Story Each Day

The best way to describe him was ‘Teddy Bearish’ — and I mean that in the nicest sense of…

That Name Might Be Real

March 24th, 2014

A Story Each Day

In Any City I Have Lived

March 23rd, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 23rd, 2014

A Story Each Day

In any city in the world, whether it’s large metropolis or tiny village, or new or aged or poor or rich or anything…

Letters Roaming Free

March 19th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 19th, 2014

A Story Each Day

I started to reply to the message that Eve had sent me, but not with the actual words that I wanted to tell her. I…

Sunglasses

March 17th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 17th, 2014

A Story Each Day

I surveyed the store as the customers’ interest in shopping slowly faded and the store neared closing time. I began to pack up and close…

Brittle

March 15th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 15th, 2014

A Story Each Day

The air brittles and steels, the ground hardens like a rock under the plunging temperatures. I pull my thick hooded mask tighter around my…

Cold Lunch and Colder Dinner

March 9th, 2014 — A Story Each Day

March 9th, 2014

A Story Each Day

Please be aware that this story contains harsh language.