Short Fiction

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...

Is there any ideology, any border, any conflict worth the price of your child?

When Papa brings home a Holstein cow, twelve year old Donald finds an escape from growing up through the twice a day chore of milking Shelf Life.

15%? 20%? You know what you need to pull out of that wallet...

Carson has a horrible secret, but he also has a friend. Because of her he has a chance...

There's nothing like being in the middle of a good jelly donut to inspire Fate to try and thwart you. Lt. Jeff Harris is about to have an unusual day.

Conclusion. On a whim, Aser decided to carry off the remains of a boy to take care of his ghost. A simple enough task, but one thing makes it difficult...

Once they had been afraid, but they fought bravely. Once they had been shut down, but they survived on their wits and their talents. And now...

And sometimes what it's all about isn't what it's all about.

Part four of five. Targold the ghost is about to see something he never imagined in life...

Just me, you, and the elephant in the room...cozy, isn't it?

She could barely walk -- buses are made for those in pain, aren't they?

Part Three of Five. Sometimes a journey goes quicker when there is company -- even if you have to carry him in a sack...

The invasion! Only one being could stop the annihilation of the world...

Apocalyptic prose from a prophet of liberation...

Part Two of Five. A child, forgotten and alone, yearns for someone to talk with. Does it matter if he's dead?

Children know nothing of factions or politics. Why must we teach them to take sides, when all we have to do is find food and shelter together?

Aunt Cecilia lived longer than the family thought she would, and kept them guessing until the very end...

Part One of Five. The traveling shaman Aser finds more at the edge of field than a good night's sleep...

Did Great Grandma Tilly lose a valuable ring? Is this young narrator marrying into a genuinely crazy family?