It was late at night. I was hard at work in my lab when I heard his voice. “So you found a loophole.” I never even broke my gaze away from my work. I knew it was him and I knew what he wanted. “So I did. Lucky break, I guess.” “Is that h...

The three looked between each other. There was no more time for words. No more words were necessary. They knew their places. Jesus swung into the driver's seat. It was the only real place for him, and there wasn't another option, when it...

My sneakers tapped gently against the pavement as I walked briskly down the street. I squeezed my way through the peak-hour human traffic, catching whiffs of overly-strong perfume and worse, overly-strong body odor. I don’t like people m...

"Why don't you just kill them?" "Because they're living creatures, Lindsay. You ask me that every ti–" "Oh shut up," she rolled her eyes, cutting him off. He sighed as he opened the door to the backyard. The moon was full but barely visi...

The Cherish of Wrath opened its wide mouth and thundered across the Semi-Sunken Plain. "IT IS NOT FAIR THAT WE TOO NOT BE FORMALLY CELEBRATED, I WISH A DAY FOR STREET AND FIELD TO SOAK IN BLOOD AND TEAR." The Cherish of Pride drew itself...

I remember before I met friend. I don't like to remember, but I can. I remember the dark and cold. I remember mama wouldn't wake up. It was raining. Big men came and put me in a box, then put that box in a bigger mover box. I remember bu...

The woman comes to the Wal-mart, alone, on a windy evening. The door to the box-store separates for her automatically when it senses her human movements, and she shivers in the vestibule. She is very tired, but still she smiles and nods ...

July 2022 note: I submitted this to the Tiny Tales podcast under the name Taylor Rae :) *** The immortals are crumbling like dry leaves. I watch one as I leave Marge's Cafe with my usual paper cup of coffee. There is a woman standing on ...