Customers : Crystal Clear

Crystal walked out of the unnamed shop, toying with the necklace she’d purchased where it dangled around her neck as she walked back to the place she’d parked her car, just off the pedestrian-only road the shop was on. She had been living in the vehicle for awhile, but she kept it more or less clean and organised, with a […]

Insect Breeder

A hot summer was hitting the western United States, the heat of the day lasting long into the evening while the sky was painted rich shades of red, orange and purple from what was remaining of the sun, dropping beyond the horizon. Beneath the darkening sky, the ground was alive, hundreds of insects, moving to and from, battling for resources […]

Burning Heat

I knew it was a bad idea but whenever I felt myself get angry to the point of rage, a run helps me cool down. I shouldn’t have done the run in the middle of the night through the park but I needed it. With my growth stunted, I looked younger than I actually was. I was forty-two years old […]

College Co-Eds of the Corn

The townspeople of Stradlin, Nebraska did not, at large, perceive the change when it happened, though there was one family in-particular on the edge of town who understood a change had occurred even if they did not understand the full extent of the moment’s implications. The family’s youngest son, Isaac, had just turned eighteen. In fact, Isaac was the youngest […]

Danse Macabre

I faced death before. Back in 1991, after the departure of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, I was six years old. Haiti was fighting a brutal civil war. It has left the Haitians broken causing the nation to become one of the most corrupted and poorest nation on earth. During the war I saw men killing women, I saw men killing […]

Darla

The old dirty pick up rambled on down the highway with some Jim Croce coming from the radio. Ben sat staring straight ahead, singing along. Darla was in the passenger seat also staring straight ahead. Neither had spoken since their fight earlier. Ben remembered when Darla had crossed his path. He was in Brewer’s Den shooting some pool against some […]

Dead Girl

I had been dead three years when I pretended not to notice the man drop a pill into my white wine, but that didn’t stop him from trying. It hadn’t stopped the other six hundred and sixty five men who were intent on courting me in this bizarre and ungentlemanly manner and it wouldn’t stop the next man or the […]

Deja-Vu

Brittany Rogers peered through the store’s broad front windows, carefully inspecting each inch of the nearly deserted parking lot. Satisfied, she unlocked the door, set the alarm and slipped outside in the required thirty seconds. She locked both top and bottom locks and scurried towards her car. As she went, she nervously scanned the area, her head swiveling. Twice she […]

Daemon

I wrote this ages ago, and have never shown it to anyone. Not the prettiest story I’ve ever penned, I must say. But, some may enjoy it The inside of apartment 667 looks absolutely nothing like the rest of the units in the complex. Stoneworks from a local quarry have been imported to cover the soundproofing material coated on every […]

Dagger Dance

Eladrial looked up as the man entered the room, smiling slightly as he approached. The heavy door clanged shut behind him, the insistent strobes and rainbowed lights of the club winking out, leaving only a dull reddish glow. She looked him over; tall and lean, well muscled like a dancer, his hair surrounding his face in dark waves. Her tongue […]