Short Story: Gloom Dispelled

"Who is she?" Tiriana asked. "Who are you talking about?" Virion asked in return, deflecting his girlfriends question. "You know who I'm talking about," Tiriana retorted. "I know you were talking to Aien about her. You said you wanted to ask her out." "That's ridiculous," he said, though he looked guilty as he said so. …

Short Story: President Carlson’s Polls Up

The most remarkable story of the last year has to be the video that was leaked of the president having sex with the assistant to his Chief of Staff, the very attractive, and relatively young, Samantha Hinson. What made it remarkable, other than the fact that someone had made and posted a pornographic video of …

Short Story: Perfidy

The lights flickered as the sound of thunder rattled the windows before going out, casting Edmund into darkness. The sound of wind and torrential rain lashed against the window as he fumbled for a lighter. He cursed the decision to quit smoking, a decision forced on him by his wife. He cursed his inability to …

Short Story: Fealton’s Trial

"Adventures are for the young," Fealton groused as he sloshed through the muddy field, a pack thrown over his right shoulder. Ahead of him, a warrior led the way, followed by a few other guards. Behind him, a contingent of dwarves grumbled, having to cooperate with humans and elves. Fealton, though human himself, was beyond …

Short story: My Awakening

I knew I was different, special, unique, at least in the small community I grew up in. No matter how hard I tried, I never quite fit in. Had I grown up in a larger, metropolitan city, I might have found my tribe, but no. I grew up in a small rural community in West …

Short Story: Burial

The note took me by surprise. “I never expected love to hurt so much.” I read it and reread it over and over again, not quite making sense of the words so clearly written by her hand, the last words she would ever write. I found it beside her when I found her, dead, rigor …

Short Story: First step

“Look at that fat fuck,” my employee Deborah said with a laugh. I turned towards the front of the gym I owned, and at the counter sat one of the fattest women I have ever seen. I had, of course, seen her around town and was disgusted by her. She was infamous at the local …

Short story: Madness

She wore her madness as lightly as the pale beams of the autumnal moon. What chance did I have? I had no defenses against her. I was a lowly mortal and she some heavenly creature, or forsaken demon from some unfathomable hell. All I knew was she was an otherworldly being, and I was besotted, …

Short story: The raging storm

He sat stoically as he read her text. He couldn't fall to pieces in public. He had clients to deal with, coworkers to work with. No, his private hell would have to wait. He'd have plenty of time to fall apart when he got home. All the time in the world. Maybe all of eternity …

Short Story: Porcelain

“I'm getting wet!” The sound of the little boy's whining set the Enzo Bousquet on edge. Why he agreed to look after the little brats, he didn't know. Well, he mused as he opened his umbrella to shelter the boy, he knew quite well. The family's fortune was in decline. Tastes in fashion were changing, …