The world is a ghost through which the wind throws. Nothing standsforever in her endless way Dust she hardly noticesbe it bite from meteorite, pollen from a mulberryor the remnants of one of Cleopatra’s lip-painting reeds The wind skips careless pastthe common warthog, black garden ant, chanteclair chicken, and a radiated tortoisehunching slowly across it’s … Continue reading Through (Microfiction-Poem)
Category: microfiction
Castle (Microfiction Monday) + Publication Update
Hello everyone! I have been reassured my short work titled "Her Sereness" will be published by the end of the year in Cosmic Horror Monthly! Note: The rest of this blog post was drafted ahead of time to be released according to a pre-set schedule. A brief little history lesson for this prompt, more non-fiction … Continue reading Castle (Microfiction Monday) + Publication Update
Greyish Mauve (flash fiction)
Here's a silly story I wrote in response to a microfiction monday prompt last month - the prompt was "paint" and because of other things I was working on at the time, I ended up using some minor knowledge of nautical camouflage for the finale. There are ways I could integrate this history better into … Continue reading Greyish Mauve (flash fiction)
Wax and Wane (flash fiction)
The shoemaker’s children did not have no shoes – they had the very best of shoes.Not fancy shoes, not made with glass or glitter, not stiletto-heeled or flat canvased, not bearing blinking lights or tiny wheels. Simply perfect shoes. Every half-moon night, the shoemaker created these shoes.Good quality material. Built by experienced, fairly-compensated and still-curious … Continue reading Wax and Wane (flash fiction)
Egg (Microfiction)
It was forty-seven minutes after ten in the evening on a mid-March night when Landrigan pulled up his eye-shade, stared up at the white stuccoed ceiling, and announced - “I know what I am.” His companion of fifteen years four months and ten weeks but who was counting said, “What?” “I’m an egg,” Landrigan said. … Continue reading Egg (Microfiction)
