A runaway farm girl with fourteen silver coins builds a life among island gangs, until a forbidden love pulls her toward one irreversible crime. Read it free.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Tag: short stories
On a Catholic blacktop ruled by the dozens, a bookish boy trades insults and faces a knife to survive a world that draws real blood at home. Read it.
An immortal geneticist and her sardonic talking cat make house calls in the last domed city, chasing a rumor that citizens are growing tails. Read it free.
She’s died 108 times and runs a pirate broadcast from a lawless bar with an alligator named Burt — until a caller from her forgotten past calls her out.
A beaten boy in 1970s America survives his abusers on imagination and the counsel of a talking teddy bear — the day everything quietly shifts.
On the eve of her freedom, a defiant heiress refuses the forced marriage her father arranged — while a herd of yaks gathers to take her side. Read it free.
A neglected boy is raised between two warring great-aunts — a church saint and an addict psychic who reads the dead — and learns to crave being adored.
In a domed city of 70 million immortal clones, every room has a camera — until Rachel47’s goes dark and she tastes privacy. A surveillance sci-fi tale.
A boy howls into a segregated 1967 Chicago ward, rejected by his mother and found by a teenage girl and a witch born into slavery — read how warmth survives.
On her last night as a child, a defiant island girl summons a fearsome goddess who will decide her fate in eight questions. A lush, queer historical tale.