Stories & Poems - page 14

• dark 23
• eerie 37
• grounded 133
• intimacy 65
• kith-kin 66
• melancholy 67
• poetry 43
• solitude 123
• speculative 98
• tension 69
• wit 81

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

Riding the Train

2 minute read

Riding the hover train this time of night always made me sleepy.

What’s a Dwaithelord?

less than 1 minute read

Dwaithelord — an honorific for the tribal leader of a coven of dwarven wraith soul stealers.

Jake

1 minute read

Jake hobbled in to the kitchen and half-sat on his haunches.

Piscans Interruptus

2 minute read

Captain Nestor breathed a sigh of relief as his yacht left the hanger bay of the Vindictus.

Torture

less than 1 minute read

Reflected in the steel above, I watch the red line widen as he traces the scalpel from my navel to between my breasts.

Smoke

2 minute read

Peter wanted a smoke.

The Toy

less than 1 minute read

a haiku poem

Wendell’s Solution

2 minute read

‘How the Hell did he get up there?

Caught

less than 1 minute read

I waited impatiently for my computer to shut down.

Sierra Enigma

6 minute read

It’s never been easy working in the same place where Mom died.

The Last Days of the Marcy Bell

2 minute read

Officially, the Marcy Bell was a salvage rig, licensed for Canadian and international waters but not American.

Good Boy, Jake

less than 1 minute read

Rod in hand, I went to the lake