Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Unexpected Friendships. … GETTING OVER IT Mom and me and Princess Cookie were riding […]
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Bookstore. … FINAL CLEARANCE EVERYTHING MUST GO For years I lived next to a
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Today begins a bunch of free short fiction for the month of October! I decided this year to go with a theme of “Normal things that people normally enjoy…gone wrong.” You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Coffee. … JUST ANOTHER MONDAY MORNING HELL So I’m just about
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I was eating a bunch of clementines the other day, and one of them smelled off. Last year, I got a bag of clementines with a number of fruits that were just bad. Eventually I ditched the whole bag–well, first I shoved it in the fridge and pretended it wasn’t there for a month. It
The whole collection is live! Oct 31: TRICK OR TREAT It is a thousand years from now. Whenever now is, it’s a thousand years after that. A cure for mortality has been created—crafted—perfected. Humanity has moved to the stars. Why not? We have literally nothing better to do than to explore the
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October Nights: 31 Tales of Hauntings and Halloween Available on Kindle A collection of flash fiction: 31 tales for the 31 nights of October. As wide a variety of horror as I could come up with–from Barker to Bradbury to Zenna Henderson. SPOOKY SHORT FICTION – PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT! Thirty-one horror tales of
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Oct 30: GHOST “It’s experimental,” Whitcomb said. “So we’re not sure what’s going to come out of it. It could be about as interesting as giving a toddler a keyboard.” “You know what they say,” Nicholls joked nervously. “An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will eventually type
Oct 29: FULL MOON Mary could only leave the house on a full moon. The doctors said she had agoraphobia, but that was because they didn’t have a word for what she had. She had always thought it rather strange—that the inside of her mind was determined by words, rather than the other
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Oct 28: CEMETERY The day was gray and depressing. The golden leaves had all fallen and been raked away, and the hills around the cemetery were dull as pot-metal from all the bare tree branches. One or two evergreens speckled the vista, but for the most part it was scenery in need of
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Oct 27: MASK Whenever I get a diagnosis, I’m never really sure that it’s my diagnosis. I have what I have nicknamed Mystery Autoimmune Disease, or as my sarcasm-laden boyfriend likes to call it, “MAD Cow Disease.” I forgive him because he painted me a picture of a Holstein cow in a can-can dress
