in the moonlit forest she daydreams of distant lands and mystical seas clothed in a halo of shimmering gold spinning stories that must be told. he sees her waltzing, alone and free enchanted by her ethereal beauty and fairy eyes of mysterious midnight her innocence beckons, her untamed spirit incites watching in wonder, he approaches…
Category: Short Stories
Snapshot Memory
Jill jingled the keys, unlocking the door for the first time. On the other side, she heard a perky voice. “Oh, hello.” The girl, although petite, held herself in a confident manner, straight-backed and chin jutted up. Almond-slit amber eyes met Jill’s gaze head on. Her coffee-brown hair had tints of blonde and curled down…
Snapshot in a Coffee Shop (A Short Story)
The coffee grinds wafted by her nose before she even opened the door. Kaley’s eyes scanned the room, looking for a place to sit. Every table was occupied. She flipped through the calendar in her head, realized it was likely the week before finals, and remembered those days just a few years before when she’d…
The Contract
The fragrance of freshly brewed coffee and pastries wafted in the air. The shop was packed, but he was easily identifiable by his red plaid scarf. I slid in the seat across from him, and though we’d never met, he smiled at me easily, as though we’d been friends our entire lives. His outward appearance…
Delivery
I saw her through my bedroom window. Five am, as usual. The sky was still dark, and a fog covered the street as she came riding through it like a phantom newspaper delivery boy summoned from hell. The light on her bike pulsed and glowed, a steady heart that never failed to beat. I’d noticed…
The Fox Demon: A Short Story
***Just a warning…this is darker than my normal writing. I wanted to practice writing speculative fiction in a short story. Also, it’s a pretty mature theme, so don’t read on if you’re easily offended.*** As always, they froze when I walked into the party. The lust-ridden teens stopped grinding on the dance floor, the frat…
The Essence Series: The Tale of Shoo
Started a new short story series that I’m calling The Essence Series. Each short story is a futuristic/sci-fi retelling of a fairy tale. And we begin with Cinderella… I didn’t grow out of my lisp until I was nearly ten. This was the year my father was forced to marry my stepmother, a woman…
The Dark Place I Sometimes Visit: Real or Make Believe? A Short Story
Sometimes I go to this dark place where ghosts roam free and fears cackle in the wind. A place in my mind that takes an ongoing battle to repress, but often, it refuses to be silenced, pushing itself to the surface like a blowup clown toy, its face deceptively happy, but truly disturbed. I wonder…
“By the Abandoned Tracks”–A Short Story for You
Took this picture across from my work building, and this short story formulated in my head. So I wrote it because sometimes we need a little piece of romantic fluff to get through the day. Everyday, she saw the abandoned railroad while she stared out the classroom window in an attempt to avoid the math…
Untold Tales by a Whimsical Wallflower 