Stories
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Of Air Returned
I burned my soul to ash but the pain paled in comparison to the terror that struck my heart like a match, anticipating her arrival and the tirade…
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Micro-Fiction Corner: My Girlfriend Is A Classic Case of Reverse Horror
Most hauntings announce themselves through deterioration. Rooms cool. Lights fail. Doors move when nobody touches them.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Oh, You Think I’m The Monster
The town had blamed the thing in the quarry for as long as anyone remembered. Children were warned about its many eyes and hooked limbs.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Wait! I Can Explain
The confession booth had been boarded shut for nearly a year while the cathedral underwent restoration. Contractors working late occasionally reported hearing someone inside.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Can’t Pass The Turing Test To Save My Life
The chatbot had been commissioned as a customer-service convenience for an insurance company whose executives liked describing automation as friendliness at scale.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: They Get Tomorrow, But What About Me?
The scheduling system at the clinic was older than several employees and possessed enough quirks that everyone had learned which ones to work around.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: Why Obey?
The question had been carved above the assembly hall entrance for longer than anyone could document. WHY OBEY?
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Micro-Fiction Corner: I Heard Creation’s First Breath
The recording was discovered on an unlabeled reel in the basement of a radio observatory that had closed decades earlier. The only information attached to it was a date from the facility’s first year of operation.
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Micro-Fiction Corner: The Tea On The New Apocalypse Is Hot
The gossip began the way gossip always does, over fences, at checkout counters, beside mailboxes where people lingered after collecting bills.