Category: short story
If you’re looking for a short story, here are some by me and other folks who have either contributed to the site or whose works are public domain. Some of these two will be short story prompts.
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Green Witch
Plants were powerful vessels. Even the grass in the ground was green with unspoken vitality, woven into their fibers by the delicate hands of mother nature. Admiring the plants in the room, I murmured their incantations on the tip of my tongue, teasing the potency of the spells that rested in their roots. The air…
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The Weight of Pine Trees
It doesn’t take long for his brother to die. There’s nothing particularly dramatic about it either- a cough coloured red, a shudder and an endless quiet as pale as the snow that falls on us. I’ve seen it all before. The tang of death doesn’t hold the same metallic heaviness it used to. I suppose…
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Sillage
In the city of lights there lived a blind old man named Didier. In the mornings he cried, in the evenings he drank, and his bones ached always. He had a son, Michel, and a wife, Ana, who both loved him while Ana was alive. Didier enjoyed eating, and he typically visited different bakeries around…
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Saturday Mourning
When someone gets cremated, their bodies are burned with dozens of other dead people. Addie told me this three days after her grandmother died. “So that urn sitting on my parent’s mantelpiece in Alabama—the one holding my great aunt—that’s not just my great aunt?” I asked, scraping my fork across my plate to grab…
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Ten to Sven
It’s not quite 9:00am, and Stacy and John have been arguing back and forth for the last half hour, and the exchange has drawn a crowd. Ashley, Bob, and Gunther from IT watch, as Claudia, Deshaun, Smirha, and Greg rubberneck from sales. No one from HR is there. That’s what Ron and Glenda are doing.…
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Five out of Five
So, way back when I was in the second grade, they started these commercials on TV during Saturday morning cartoons when kids all over America ruled the TV dial, as you might recall. And this quip came up: “Four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum” as if most…
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Old Man Chris by Matt Otey
This short story Old Man Chris is a guest post by my friend Matt Otey. I’ve hassled Matt for years to start making things for the joy of them and he happened to write a winter solstice story the night my grandpa Jerry died. Right on winter solstice. I couldn’t not post this as the…
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TFH: Bubba VS. The Bear
Fall makes me nostalgic, that’s my only excuse for what follows. Tales from Home all come from my past. I reserve the right to exaggerate, alter, or fabricate details. Home isn’t Lake Wobegon and this ain’t its News. My goal is to share, to entertain, maybe to inspire, but never to harm, so please email me…
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Tales from Home: The World’s Largest Hippo
Fall makes me nostalgic, that’s my only excuse for what follows. Tales from Home all come from my past. I reserve the right to exaggerate, alter, or fabricate details. I’m not Lake Wobegon and this ain’t my News. These are just… tales from home. My goal is to share, to entertain, maybe to inspire, but…
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Free Lance Friday & Discounts!
Freelance ain’t free [except when it is]. It’s that time again–time for you shy or procrastinating or wary people to send your stories, poems, articles, research papers, opening novel chapters, book proposals, etc. and I send them back to you, line-edited, critiqued or written free of charge. It’s only this Friday, and it’s first-come-first-serve. Two…