Short Fiction

Six-year-old Jackie is quite a character. He brings second chances to the ultimate...

After so long, there's a strange itch to know, to see, to speculate...is it better not to scratch?

And now, a story that will make you sit up and watch to see what's happening in the next lane -- and make you dread what appears...

It was a bad idea to start with, but it turned out to be...much worse...

How do you stand and how do you approach when you know that you cannot run?

Resentment moves in a downward spiral, and everything begins to drag you deeper. But with a gift of an understanding ear, maybe hope has a chance to grow.

Jon Herring currently resides in Philadelphia where he works as a copy editor in the pharmaceutical industry. He spends his days squinting at drug labels, while searching for a missing period or hyphen, and drinking as much free office coffee as he can.

Sometimes the best thing you can receive is what you've come least to expect...

Conclusion. A new caller is at the door, and it's not one of the paying customers...

I'm betting the shoelaces thing is true...

A workaholic father faces his daughter's unexpected anger toward him--and that anger's unexpected resolution.

A long way, and the roads were fast and dry with a mirage at the end of them all...

And then there was blood...

Maybe she doesn't understand what she sees and hears, but she intuits that more is happening than the critical gossip team notices...

Light a candle for remembrance, let it burn...for the passion once felt...

A dark beginning to her life, and now, a darker circumstance...

Return again to the universe of "The Mechanic" and Estrada's last hope and happiness...

Vampire writer Lydia Manx weaves another tale of horror with the starting episode of "Westward Dust."

Do the dead know what we think of them?

A beautiful view, rich furnishings...the house was everything a weary traveler could want, and the price was right -- or was it?

Makes you want to become a vegetarian...but wait, Bernardo was a vegetarian, wasn't he?

You think you know him, have known him all his life...but what he has done in the world isn't half of what the world has done to him...

Esther waits for a single gift before she can know peace, and it arrives in an unexpected form.

Clothe yourself in darkness...and then don't be surprised what you find in your pockets...

Well, yes, but did you really have to say it?

"...It's the hardship as much as anything else that makes the cowboy who he is..."

Your fingers itch to be moving, your brain bulges with mental momentum, and there's that white screen staring you down...

When someone looks at the front of your house, who do they see?

What if there really is nothing to it?

Oh, what a girl wouldn't do for something sweet and delicious...