Everyone has told a stranger too much at three in the morning. She is hiding from four armed men. He is thirteen, and fifty years away. A 15-minute read.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Month: January 2026
She came to the city with fourteen silver coins and a plan. Everyone has taken a job just to tide themselves over. Hers is still going. A 10-minute read.
There’s been an altercation in the schoolyard. A sharpened screwdriver was involved. The eight-year-old on the ground is the one they took to the office.
They sent the best geneticist on Earth door to door on a rumor nobody believes. She brought the cat. The cat has opinions. A free 9-minute read.
Thursdays at The W: bikers, debutantes, and a thirteen-foot alligator on stage with no leash. Then a caller says she knew Lynn before. 7-minute read.
He was hospitalized twice that year. Both times, he fell down the stairs. He sleeps in the hall closet at the top of them. A free 10-minute read.
Everyone has sat at a table while people discussed them in the third person. Not everyone was being sold at the time. A free 10-minute short story.
A six-year-old was seen at the collection plate holding a hundred-dollar bill. He had been told not to be seen. He must have taken it. A 10-minute read.
Her living room camera went dark and she has not reported it. In the last city on Earth that is the one unforgivable thing. A free 22-minute read.