Short Fiction

You learn as you go, in life...and some lessons take hours to learn.

When night falls, and the wind calls your name, is it courage to press your face against the glass...or your worst mistake?

Jay Sizemore has found a day job to be the enemy of imagination, but poverty is the cruelest of muses. He writes poems and stories while his wife sleeps and the cats try to figure out how to open doors.

Conclusion. The plans have been made, the stage set...let the dog speak for them all.

Can serving on a jury be considered aiding and abetting a crime?

What can be done about his drunken rages, his irresponsibility, his lack of respect, his family's pain? The dog knows. Part Four of Five.

Oh, so that's why they have such a problem...

What father mourns his living son? What wife her present husband? What dog passes judgment on a man? Part 3 of 5.

A legless woman, a talking dog, a handsome man with a beautiful voice -- how can they have met? Part 2 of 5.

Yes, it was just as good as taking out an ad in the newspapers ... wait, does anyone read newspapers any more? Maybe it was a lot better than taking out an ad!

Our lives flow along like the waters of a river, and where we find ourselves is at least partly due to how we use the current...

Look out for yourself -- this future is closer than you think!

What if you woke up tomorrow and it was seven centuries later, and a lot of problems had been solved? Would you long for the past or...?

The pain only lasts a short time in the scheme of things, but that last flash of memory, the one in which you can see how it was all going wrong -- that's the thing that cripples your heart...

Some people just can't get out from under that label...

A child is told that Authority comes from Heaven, and that Authority comes from the head of the family. Think about it.

This editor is glad that the Foodie Channels don't have anything "special" on tonight...

Maui Holcomb grew up in the Northwest and currently lives and writes in Burbank, California, toiling in the lower echelons of the film industry attempting to make movies sound good.

So dangerously fast was the troika, they made a law that the horses had to wear bells to warn of their approach ...

To savor each day, to soak in all the beauty that surrounds us, from the minute to the mountainous...is there any higher calling?

A project, a paper, an experiment: they have a particular and finite purpose, a beginning and an end. However, people -- and justice -- should be more than that...

This is where you find the words, the truth, the glory...

The shadowy recesses of the curtains, the soft sound of steps upon the wooden dais, the splendor of the lights...theater! Nothing like it!

"...adjective: related or joined in spirit..."

Marshall J. Pierce is an author, producer and songwriter living in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in newspapers, online magazines, literary mags, tv commercials, corporate videos, LitQuake, box packaging, his Mom's Facebook page, radio theatre and countless emails.

There are always clues -- but the mystery surrounding a murder may have only a few of them that are apparent...

Jeremy has no choice -- he must go to Africa and hunt a certain rhino if he wants to be rid of his affliction...

The best flavors are the ones you can taste from your heart out...

Bill Schwarz is a writer, designer, and engineer from Austin, Texas.

Unseen danger floats all around you. Are you prepared? A simple and economical solution is available to keep you and your loved ones safe.