Category: Fiction
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The Broadcast Violence Was Thusly Amplified
He was watching the news. Something bad was happening in Syria. She was in the other room getting undressed. She thought about what she had just read on her phone. Something bad was happening in Syria. She used the master control to turn off the lights. The apartment fell dark and this had the effect […]
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An Undergraduate Refilled Their Glasses
Neither of them moved or spoke. An undergraduate refilled their glasses. The horn of an unseen car honked succinctly, providing an auditory punctuation that neither of them could muster.
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Short Story: Modifications Politely Declined
My latest short story Modifications Politely Declined has been featured on The Regal Fox. Click here to give it a read. He wouldn’t have noticed her if she hadn’t been smoking a cigarette. That she was doing so while seated directly under a sign that read ‘Thank You For Not Smoking’ made him feel strangely […]
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The Burning Intensity In Her Gaze
“Any fall from this height would certainly be fatal,” I said with a casualness that her response did not mirror. “So jump,” she whispered just loudly enough for me to hear. She turned toward me and the burning intensity in her gaze told me that her remark had been no parapraxis; she was ready to […]
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One Thousand, Seven Hundred And Ninety Four
“The anxiety you’re describing is born from a desire to know the unknowable. You would have precise – and beautiful, for their precision – integers assigned to pointless quantities, such as the passel of cars parked in this garage. It’s not that you want or need to know the exact number, but you feel like […]