Short Fiction and Poetry

This is the very last place on Earth I want to be right now. Like, the absolute dead last. But here I am with a bottle of Yuengling [...]

The film camera caught my eye instantly, like an otherworldly force singing a siren song. [...]

I buried his cold corpse with parched and sapped hands, as I began to sense all the numbers on my body convulse. [...]

I wrote my name in the dust for the last time. You knew my habits well - an ailing language that led us both astray. [...]

Another night has come and gone. Another night of counting the hours until daybreak. Another morning watching the sun slowly rise [...]

"Selling? Yeah, I am aware that’s what people call it," he tittered.Contrary to what I was told, he didn’t have pointy, shark-like teeth[..]

He brought a gun to the house. It is a cold and heavy and alien-looking thing that Daniel waves in his left hand [...]

1, 2, 3. Joe drank as quickly as he could so nobody could catch him. Flames licked his throat, and sunlight held his skin [...]

When I first announced that I was leaving everything to follow Him, my wife and daughter couldn't understand. [...]

I understood very early that I was not Bonny despite what my parents named me. But I could make myself forget. [...]

Celeste hunches over the bin. Plick. Plick plick. Peeler against sweet potato taps out the percussive diatribe ever playing around her[...]

All of Annie’s life had been devoted to making herself disappear, from the time her mother had  vanished [...]

The apartment smelled the same as it had for the last three weeks and it wasn’t exactly pleasant [...]

“It's now been 25 days since the sombs have attacked. Most of us don't even bother counting, as each day is a struggle in itself [...]

September is a funny month. You never know how she will present herself: clinging fiercely to the last late orange and pink sunsets [...]

At first, it was just stray dogs, cats, raccoons, rabbits and other small animals… We ate well. We learned how to cook [...]

Owl awoke into an alternate universe, grossly apparent because he’d previously been flying through the clear night sky [...]

They rove in hordes, packs on the hunt, rot and decay their realm. Their station has shifted, not up, not down, but sideways [...]

Noah came back on a Sunday. The town called it a sign of God’s goodness, but Mama didn’t see it like that. She could never agree [...]

My lady, a year and a day have passed; yesterday’s snows have melted. But the deep bond we once forged was never broken in my heart. [...]