Month: July 2021

Eva and I had practically grown up together, and sometimes acted more siblings than we did cousins, since neither of us had any other siblings. Her mom and my dad had always been close and when they grew up and got married, they stayed in the same hometown, and so our families always did stuff together.

My name is Jason. I’m 18 years old and I live with my Mom, Laura, in a small, one-bedroom apartment on the third floor of a building that has seen better days. She has the bedroom and I sleep on the sofa, which pulls out into a bed. It’s not my Mom’s fault we live there, it’s my Dad’s fault. […]

Phoebe sat in a velvet tufted chair. Her lady’s maid stood behind her, brushing her hair with a soft bristled brush. One hundred passes of the brush over Phoebe’s long light brown hair. The maid’s hands were washed in a fragranced oil that she applied, almost, to each individual strand. Working the moisture into Phoebe’s hair with each stroke of […]

Picture this: A vampire girl bitten in her twenties hundreds of years ago, but instead of being an old-fashioned goth, she’s an Instagram model with a sunny disposition. Pale as fuck, obviously, but with flowing blonde hair and a palette of colorful eyeshadows in her makeup bag. She’s dating the farmer’s butch daughter who’s always tired after a long day […]

Jaime sat across from his Mother at the kitchen table, staring blankly ahead as she happily prattled on about her day to him. He could see her lips moving, watching her overly exaggerated hand-gestures, but he didn’t catch a single word of it.

The time is September 1991, and the place is the Republic of Haiti. Panic gripped the Haitian nation, with President Aristide gone, and the Haitian military, led by General Raoul Cedras, taking over. The ancients remember the days of the Duvalier Dictators, Papa Doc and Baby Doc, when tyranny defeated democracy. Young people clamor about the state of the Haitian […]

The door was locked. Naked, I found the nearby hidden spare key and got the door open. I made my way in. Mary was curled up on the floor sobbing. I went toward her, reached out to her. She batted at my reaching hand, stared at me with red-rimmed eyes, hissed at me, “I hate you! Get away from me!” […]

My name is Brittany. I was fresh out of college, 22 years old, and got my first good job as a sales apprentice with a medium sized company. My job consisted mainly of making presentation materials supporting sales meetings. Basic support functions for the sales department. It’s a fairly high pressure department as many of the deals they make are […]

Her phone rang off it’s a familiar chime, calling her back from some half remembered dreamscape, to her king sized bed in a large house in the suburbs of Chicago. Grey light trickled in through the window from a predictably overcast sky and shed no shadows as it dimly lit her room in the early morning. Eric lay in bed […]

It was a beautiful day in April. Spring was coming to a close and summer was on its way, but unlike all the other eighteen year olds in my neighborhood, I was trapped inside. Finals week was approaching, and my grades this entire semester had not been up to far. As a result, I was grounded until finals were done.