Short Fiction

Jess has only three additional family members; only one of them speaks to her. A connection with her daughter seems as likely as bringing Jess's husband Stan back from the dead. But something even more unexpected than a sudden ice storm is about to happen...

How much do our animals understand from us? Do they merely act on instinct, or are they listening to what we actually say? Part One of Three.

Do you ever stop and think about what it was like back then, when the future was still an unknown iceberg in the Ocean of Life?

Can you say ... "Automatic?"

Peace, joy, hope, happiness. All these are found in love...so how can we leave what we loved behind?

And this world, and all things in it...?

Dominy Clements studied composition and flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1983 to 1987. After graduating he came to The Netherlands in 1987 to study composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire, also studying with Gilius van Bergeijk and Frederic Rzewski.

Luther wasn't exactly human, but he is dead. He leaves behind a token that contains a power beyond anything even he could have expected.

Is your writing a reflection of your soul? Or is it a biography of your life? Or a road map of your journey...?

Too many of the words we say are simply noises we've learned to make. We say they have meaning, but do we actually know what that is?

Caroline Taylor writes short stories, novels, and nonfiction. She's clueless about the purpose of social media, but she can imagine where it might be heading.

Welcome to October 2015, and BIZARRE Month in the Piker Press! Keep an eye on your computer, strange things can happen there...

Can you say that you've lost everything when you didn't understand what it was you had?

Searching for novelty, searching for beauty, searching for excitement...why is it such a an biological imperative when so often it leads to destruction?

Haunted house? Hah. Sigfried and Roy could have done a better job than the sideshow at the Brinkman House. Still, debunking superstitious nonsense like paranormal phenomena is what scientists do. Nice that there are people willing to dedicate their lives to science.

Cora has no place to go. An answer finds her, but it isn't what she would expect...

Honesty is the best policy, the old saying goes. But the best -- for who?

Time and space are finite. But love, and spirit are not...

Is being politically correct over-rated? When is opinion a crime?

"How many fingers do you have?" someone asks you. The answer is easy -- you look at your hands and count them. But what if the questions you're asked lead to an answer that can't be seen?

"Let them eat cake"? No, that's not what you want to say to this guy...

Sometimes bad intentions can backfire -- or lead to two steps backward and maybe one forward...

He's got the floor -- so to speak -- and it's time for him to tell all...

Ah, to wake upon that shining shore again...

For the sake of his family, his destiny lies across the water. His destiny is bound up with that of a stranger...

Morgan has had enough of her mother's neediness and her brother Ricky's poor choices. Someone has to take a new direction...

Sometimes the Great Chasm that divides us makes it easier to communicate, after all...

When you're headed off into unfamiliar territory, what you wish most for is a map...

Modern science can make any of us mythic...

It's right to stand up for a principle, isn't it? Only whose principles do we choose, and where do they come from?