Stories & Poems - page 18

• 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.

Planning

3 minute read

Everything was going according to plan.

Second Chances

2 minute read

Archie winced and swallowed.

Snow Day

2 minute read

Ellen loved her brother, of that there was no doubt.

Haley Meets Jimmy

3 minute read

I should have trusted my instincts.

A Promise Kept

2 minute read

“Damn,” Marnie said as she pulled over onto the icy soft-shoulder and got out, leaving the car running but the door ajar.

Jonas

3 minute read

Jonas leaped over the barricade and wormed his way through an opening in the quarantine fence without being noticed, his stolen prize held tightly in his jaws.

Haley’s Homecoming

3 minute read

I hitched my knapsack up over one shoulder and got off the bus.

Thanksgiving

less than 1 minute read

“Good man, where might I find your nearest mooring dock?

Pickles

less than 1 minute read

Sour pickles that make me pucker

Black Friday

less than 1 minute read

I tried, I tried, with all my might

Patching Annie

2 minute read

Walking by my daughter’s room with an armload of laundry, I pause to listen at the door.

Manhunt

less than 1 minute read

Leaves crunched noisily under foot despite their practiced woodsman experience.