Stories & Poems - page 10

• dark 25
• eerie 39
• grounded 139
• intimacy 73
• kith-kin 70
• melancholy 75
• poetry 43
• solitude 127
• speculative 106
• tension 74
• wit 83

I gave some old stories a little love and polish. Find them here. They are my personal favourites.

Blankets

less than 1 minute read

“But we have to keep warm,” Jake pleaded as he dropped a pile of blankets on the couch.

A Beginning…

less than 1 minute read

Amy wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and flushed the toilet quickly before her mother asked questions.

The Sentinel

2 minute read

My name is Gracie and I am the Sentinel.

What Am I?

less than 1 minute read

We’re twins, you and I.

One Last Letter

3 minute read

Ricky checked his mailbox everyday at just before noon, rain or shine.

Resolve

less than 1 minute read

“Happy New Year!

Barbecue

2 minute read

Okay, Nicholas.

Whoops

less than 1 minute read

Special ornament

Gramp’s Grace

less than 1 minute read

I’m not a religious man, but sitting at head of the table where my grandfather would have normally sit, I looked around to my rarely-assembled family, all ea...

Backroom Elves

less than 1 minute read

“Blinky, put that wrench down and get over here.

Newly Freed

less than 1 minute read

thin glaze on puddles

The Last Voyage of the Nancy

1 minute read

Young Mary laced my bodice tight and helped me into my skirts.