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Toxic Playground – Short Story

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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. When everyone leaves for work, there’s hope that a seed will sprout from me. I’m happy being a simple thing that everyone passes by and thinks less of. A planter with nowhere to go Read More

Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part Four

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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 only source of illumination from the moon outside. The house itself was not extraordinary. A couch covered in cobwebs, old in style with leather buttons, sat lifeless and dead in the main room, close to a piano shrouded in transparent cotton. Otherwise the place was tidy. I imagined an older couple had lived here before it was abandoned Read More

Haunted Halloween – Short Story

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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 just been watching too many Halloween movies.” But even Luke knew she was too young to watch those.

“She does this every year. She’s just nervous again, about the accidents.” said his mother, who was untangling the purple and orange lights Read More

Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part Three

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The sticky substance expelled from my throat like a torrent. Visions began again. This time I was prepared for them, knowing that although the pain might have felt real they were only dreams and they wouldn’t leave any lasting damage, other than the quick tearing of the Band-Aid from my mind. My fingers covered my mouth, trying to hide my shame but the substance pushed them away, my eyes watered, and my arms were pulled back behind me, from my own…stomach bile Read More

Artifact from Another Universe – Short Story

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Status alert: IVR-2 has been found on planet 12-Suicury g. Subatomic string scans and history logs provide the following timeline.

High orbit scans suggest the planet was nonvolatile and non-hostile at the time the bot’s capsule crash landed in a valley on the planet’s surface. Local biological scans revealed that the local fauna discovered the crash site and probed the capsule until they unlocked the cryo-sealed exhaust hatch. A primitive bioluminescent species, the natives managed to access the internal cockpit and drag out the bipedal bot. The natives, themselves bipedal in nature, used their primitive tools and webbed appendages to drag the bot from its capsule and back to their cave hovels Read More

The Golden Hoard – Short Story

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“You’ll end up dead like your daddy.” That’s what grandpa said about the living room. He could have chosen nicer words at least. Nathan’s grandpa wasn’t nice though but he had a lot of cool stuff or “junk” as his mom called it, all throughout the house. The clutter in the living room was at least a few feet taller than himself, columns of books standing like towers over a dark and gray landscape. Nathan was sure there was treasure in there somewhere, under all the stuff, somewhere below it all Read More

Cafeteria Brain Worms – Short Story

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“There’s no such thing as a recession. My dad says it’s made up.” Barry interrupted, his arms flailing so everyone in the cafeteria could see. “The school’s just trying to save money by using squirrel meat. Or maybe even human meat. Shoot, people are eating the cicadas for snacks…Eww, dude.” He lifted up his tray and dropped it, a splatter of ground meat shot across the table, appearing more like spilled brains with beans. The mozzarella added to the neural-webbing look Read More

VaXed – Short Story

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“We are withered, aimless, and hollow, we are until we find something to follow.”

Her blood pulsed, her heart ached at the words of her favorite quote from her partner AI, the AI that was like another sense. Cora, worth the money Sepha spent on the digital intelligence, sent her messages, sometimes cryptic, to inspire her, to make her more of an individual, to be independent and strong.

It was Cora who gave her the information about the ministry and the terrible things they were doing, in the name of public health and the vaccination. Sepha stood on the roof of the 50-story server farm building, concealed behind a skin-tight, and itchy, cloaking suit. Monitor drones were zipping around the adjacent skyline, the smoke and heat output from the other server buildings pouring from the vents, creating a misty veil for their insect-like flight paths Read More