Category: Short Fiction
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Monsters of the Metaverse – Short Story
“I’m a bitch and you’re an asshole. There’s no difference between me and you except my gender.” This moron in the blue double-breasted suit was starting to annoy her. “That’s equality for you.” “Yet you call yourself a business woman, Ms. Quell. Which is it?” Stanley, the mutant blood-sucking, cowardly HR representative was trying her…
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Castle of Dreams – Short Story
Her mother told her about this place. It was meant to contain the dreams of the Shamuk and their brethren. Long ago the castle stood as a monument of the Shamuk Empire and its might. During the Verdon period the Varians invaded and destroyed most of what remained of the empire, tossing their scriptures and enchanted tomes to the wind. As Talia stood there, in…
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Toxic Playground – Short Story
I’m a ceramic planter without the plant. Just a ceramic, circular bowl of dirt. Only because I want to be. There are people who do so many extraordinary things. Fairies, orcs, robots, vampires, wolves with anthropomorphic humanoid bodies. It all seems so complicated and overwhelming. I’m just happy with Monday morning sunshine and glossy dew.…
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Haunted By Me – Short Story
The fortune teller wasn’t nervous when I sat down at the round table but her eyes suddenly darted behind me, narrowing with dread. I glanced back and no one was there. “Is everything ok?” My coworker recommended the psychic after I admitted to feeling a strange presence in a reoccurring nightmare, the one where I…
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National Ignorance Crisis – Short Story
It was wonderful until politics got involved. The space between the creation of a full body health scanner, made affordable with nano scan technology, and the time it took the government to regulate it was glorious. My mom was the first to jump in line for one at Black Friday to help diagnose her back…
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Valley of Arachnids – Short Story
We marched on a never-ending road of broken minds and callused feet. Our weapons were rusted with the yellow blood of the arachnids, borrowed swords from failed campaigns into enemy territory. Several battalions of King Henry’s army, hundreds in number, left the city of Minora seven fortnights ago but the journey felt like seven years.…
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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 4 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. Darkness faded from a pinhole of distant light. Night, in a living room of an old house. I found that I was standing, appreciative of the fact that I was fully clothed. The windows were the…
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Haunted Halloween – Short Story
It was Halloween night and soon the death would start again. “There’s a ghost in my window.” Luke’s sister came into the living room while his father was pulling out the plastic skeletons. “I think he’s angry that we killed him.” His father looked up with a look of annoyance and sighed. “It’s fine. You’ve…
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Forever Alone – Short Story
I could still feel the crystals laying on my eyes even when they weren’t there. Where did the damn things go? They must’ve rolled off during the night, fallen off the sheets. I knew I should never have believed that holistic shopkeeper. She was more gypsy hag than a proprietor but the prospect of using…
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As The World Drowned Us – Short Story
The waves came suddenly, washing away all the filth and anxiety of mankind. We became so enamored with ourselves that we forgot about the health of the planet and became ignorant of its grievances. We forgot that it still existed, under our feet and in our lungs. We abused it and succumb to its unforgiving…
Karl Kirkpatrick 