Stories & Poems - page 6

• 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.

Pink Tint

less than 1 minute read

So much blood.

Haley Dreams

1 minute read

My dreams always started the same way.

Of Blood and Text Messaging

1 minute read

Detective Arnie Chalmers dropped his finished cigarette to the asphalt, ground it with his heel, and waited for his partner to catch up.

The Interview

less than 1 minute read

Janine let her hair flop forward on the left, decided against it, and threw her hair up in a clip.

Lessons

2 minute read

So, I’ve been reading my NaNoWriMo novel today and had a brainwave.

Observation

less than 1 minute read

I watch as she sits on the park bench, tucking a wisp of hair behind her ear, and quietly sips her coffee.

Too Far from Home

1 minute read

Melanie closed one eye and focused on the board.

First Fledging

less than 1 minute read

I’ll never forget the first time I sat behind the yoke of dad’s old hovercar by myself, newly minted holo-license carefully filed in my e-wallet.

Spider Man

less than 1 minute read

“Oh, thank you, Spiderman!

Captain Underpants

less than 1 minute read

She asked me two times

Bat Geriatrics

less than 1 minute read

“Alfred!

At the Mall

less than 1 minute read

So, yeah, it all started when Mikey dared me to put my tongue on the cold post outside the mall entrance.