Mister Rabbit
Mister Rabbit resulted from a set writing prompt: a children’s story for 5-8 year-olds, no more than 500 words, containing rabbit, ice cream, river; third person, past tense, containing both description and narrative. …
Fiction
The Green Vase
The Green Vase is from a flash fiction prompt based on the cumulative sentence. It’s not about the green vase at all. …
Short Fiction List 2022
The Short Fiction List 2022: some of the short stories posted here on the site. …
Fiction: The Fifth Horseman
“Can I just take a few details,” Jane asked as the unremarkably short, unremarkably thin and unremarkably… average man sat in the visitors’ chair in front of her desk.
“Sure.”
Hair; brown. Jacket; brown. Corduroys; brown. Shoes; brown. Jane detected a pattern.
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Fiction: Janet Davies and the Asylum Seeker of Kla’Arg
Just when I thought I’d seen all sorts, Janet Davies thought as she approached her desk after her coffee break. …
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BBC9: In the Closet
“You’re listening to BBC Radio 9, Night-time and we’re in the Closet. Thats the musical special-interest closet for all you fans of indie hardcore, grunge, guitar, mixed core, fruit-and-nut, hub-cap and community disco; be it on download, CD, vinyl, 78, 45, 33 and a third, 38-26-34, Arsenal-Brentford one-nil, 911-assist or the vuvuzela. …
Bella Star
From the observation deck, the star seems only a little brighter than usual.
Through the polarised filters and shielding, close enough to touch, filling the entire space. Safe. Comforting.
Unlike the truth of it. The destructive power of it; awesome, in its’ true meaning. …
Isaac
Isaac. Sci-fi short fiction in the style of Silverberg, Asimov, Vonnegut and others of the Golden Age.
“Isaac, we already had this conversation.” …
The Western Gate
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible-
Anjuron was thankful for the descending darkness as he made his way through Jerusalem’s streets, as the guards set the few Moslem prisoners to clearing the dead, washing away two days of blood. …