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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

Mindshatter – Short Story

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It was coming again. That darkness, that fading blur in his eyes, that tingling sensation that felt like the beginning of a migraine. But it wasn’t a migraine. It was much worse. Migraines, even ocular migraines that impaired his vision, didn’t rip apart the fabric of reality, cause him to blackout, and lose track of time. Jeremy’s mind, even if the cerebral technician said he couldn’t find anything weird, no longer felt like his own Read More

The Great Below – Short Story

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The creaking wouldn’t stop. The sound crushed her soul, along with the metal cage closing in around her. She blocked it out by cupping her ears but she knew it was still there. Reverberations sent shivers up her spine, reverberations that echoed into the great deep below, into the great expanse of nothingness, cold, darkness, and despair.

Meghan didn’t know how long it would take to sail from Miami to Sandy Point but she knew she would be shaking, curling into a ball, the entire time. And she had only been in the car for twenty minutes! Could the transport ship be any louder with its low humming and ruckus of the working crewmen going around the other cars parked on the ship, yelling and joking? She peaked out the back passenger window and saw a man with headphones laughing stupidly. Beyond him was the expanse of the Atlantic, rippling blue, undulating with sickening motion. She ducked down when the man turned toward the SUV. If she was caught now, they might just take her back to Miami. It had been so long since Meghan had seen her mother ever since she moved to the islands. Her mother knew she was afraid of the ocean and her father had left her with a babysitter back on land. But her father couldn’t have expected that she’d stowaway in his SUV, and probably wouldn’t have cared either way Read More

Reptile Dysfunction – Short Story

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So yeah, I kinda screwed up…Okay, maybe I screwed up big time. Really, really, REALLY screwed up. But I can’t be the only person who pretended to know what they wanted. I just wanted people to notice me! I just wanted to be a baller! Sipping champagne with the stars and banging super models. I used to get all kinds of play in the rap game, but now…. I don’t think anyone wants to bang me after this…

People used to make fun of my face tattoos but damn — ain’t nobody going to be cool with what I did. You can’t expect people to love you when you’ve turned yourself into a monster but I did, at least in the beginning. It all started when I lost a few thousand followers from a social media post promoting my love for dragons. WTF! Why does that make me weird? Am I not allowed to have other interests than money, bitches, and getting F’d up Read More

Echo in the Mirror – Short Story

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The door slammed behind her as Casey arrived home. She didn’t realize she was angry until she slammed her keys on the counter. Maybe she could get a second opinion. The tests they performed were extensive but with something so grave, so terminal, she couldn’t simply trust their diagnosis, not so early in the process.

Her head started to buzz. She couldn’t decide if it was the caffeine or some symptom of the tumor in her head. What better time for the doctor to give her the bad news than after her morning breakfast. She looked at the mess on the counter, the speed in which she had left when they called showed in the residue from the coffee, discarded grounds everywhere. She knew she wouldn’t believe them, the doctor and his nurse, when she had left, and she refused to accept her fate even now Read More