Greetings from Europa – Seventeenth Transmission: Crash Site
When NASA first introduced its latest rocket design, the Intergalactic Space Vessel Expediter, and proposed the manned fact-finding mission to….
Tales From The Set: “Call My Ex, Please?” (a true story)
Okra-Sex looked straight ahead. To my knowledge, her eyes never once fell on me. I was an entity that existed in her peripheral vision. “Can you…
First Saturdays
The best thing about growing up without anything is that you learn to make the most of what you’ve got and distract yourself from what you…
A Rose by Any Other Voice
When I wore a younger man’s clothes, I wrote a story. One that I’ve never shared, one that will never transform itself into another work of art, one I…
Alice: Reflections of a Looking Glass Friendship (true story allegory)
They say you meet friends in the damnedest places when you aren’t looking for them and I thought this was utter nonsense until the day I…
Braiding Tales: We Built a World, Row by Row (a true story)
Since we had nothing but time to kill, we talked about our constricted home lives, mentioned the odd hobby, told a few jokes and had a…
I Am A Sentient Black Hole. Ask Me Anything.
My name is Ganymedorah and I’m a sentient black hole keen to debunk stereotypes. Ask me anything…
Greetings from Europa – Sixteenth Transmission: News From Dery’Ylok Prefecture
Jampi and I stayed in Jhisal long enough to repay Meis’lo and the rest of the village for their hospitality. This was done by sharing our stories…
The Strange Case of Wilhelmina Soames
She was dubbed the Mad Mother of Main Street, this woman was, Miss Wilhelmina Soames by name, pushing an empty pram up and down the…
Blood Money (Part 2)
Foy plucked a dried fragment of brimstone from a carpet fiber with a pair of tweezers and dropped it into a plastic vial. “All right, Detective…
Duchess and the Anecdote
They come from miles around, my characters do, traveling the great distance from the fringes of my minds eye, some even making the long and…
Blood Money
Detective Elodie Arcement arrived on scene shortly after 3 a.m., the so-called hour of the wolf, when things of this nature usually occurred…
Can You Meet My Conditions?
You tell me that you love me and desire nothing more than to be with me, but I must make you understand that entering into a relationship with…
Of Things Read About and Dreamt
In spite of the pleasant weather forecast prediction, a rogue thunderstorm struck Friday evening, the likes of which had not been seen…
Greetings from Europa – Fifteenth Transmission: Death and Rebirth
Meis’lo is old, even by Europan standards, and has a tendency to speak in alien hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and analogy, most of…
The Pier
The pier was considered an eyesore by local residents. Missing and broken dock planks and wooden posts jutting out of the choppy…
Songs As Stories: The Unspeakable Act
The odd sound, human, yet somehow alien at the same time, was coming from Alfred’s bedroom. She approached eagerly yet cautiously…
Challenge Accepted
Shari found herself standing on the veranda, the sun having set without her realizing, and the cold cigarette butt between her fingers burnt down…
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
When it was Joanie Hayden’s turn, she strode proudly to the head of the classroom with her school writing assignment written neatly in cursive…
Nora’s Novel
I first met Nora in a secondhand bookstore when we both reached for the last copy of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” After several…
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