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.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Tag: short stories
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.
Chicago, 1967. Delivered in a warehouse one block from the hospital that wouldn’t take them. The mother declined to hold him. She must not have wanted him.
Eight questions. No warning. No time to prepare. Nobody likes a pop quiz — and this one decides whether she survives the night. A free 20-minute read.