Category Archives: Fiction

Only ever love

I hate everything about this place: the ticking clock, the fluorescent light, the sound of the water cooler. Nothing here is comforting. Nothing here seems safe or warm. They have her in the back; I heard her crying, earlier. They … Continue reading

Posted in Fiction, Flash | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Recognizable

The ferocity of the slap rocked her head back; she resettled her stance and lifted her chin, defiant, navy eyes staring him down. “That all you got?” she wondered, and the curve of her lips twisted into a challenging smirk. … Continue reading

Posted in Fiction, Flash | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pieces you lay down

Awake. Wife handles the kids, while he eats, showers, hurries off to work. He stares at spreadsheets for hours, all the brilliance of his day fading in the moments where his gaze glasses over, and the hand holding the coffee … Continue reading

Posted in Fiction, Flash | Leave a comment

Paid For

It was three days later, while Xand was tending to and being tended by the gaunt, pale, exhausted Master Tynan, that a courier from Master Jack arrived. An armed courier. The man said to Tynan, “My Master insists on another … Continue reading

Posted in Fiction, Flash | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Give Me Strength

“You misunderstand,” the redhead girl tells him, but he is not listening, especially because no one in the world, in their right mind, would ever tell the Emperor that he was mistaken, that he was about to do something that … Continue reading

Posted in Fiction, Flash | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment