Short Fiction

Michael has no respect whatsoever for Alex's spirituality. But although Alex knew that, he didn't understand that for Michael, spirituality was as game for turning a buck as selling the Brooklyn Bridge ...

Sam Gridley's fiction and satire have appeared in numerous magazines in print and online.

The divergence of Alex' and Michael's spirituality is apparent as they try to celebrate their mutual birthday. Is Michael ready to straighten out his life yet, or is he about to drag Alex down?

She was obedient, helpful, dulcet-voiced ... how annoying is that?

Time is running out: evil is on the hunt with blood lust and purpose. The shock of knowing his true nature may slow Plague down a second too long ...

Some may call that beautiful sound the "music of the spheres" and others may call it the "echoes of creation" but Jimbo is about to find out whose voice it really is ...

Another trip with Margot the Troll, but this one is starting differently. Looks like Aser did something unexpected, and not at all appreciated ...

The time had come, there was no way to avoid it...one last visit to his best friend.

The item of the highest value is the unbroken promise of love ...

Clutch your purse and get your sob-tissues handy -- Nigel is about to embark upon a speed-dating expedition.

You can call it love, or loyalty, or supportiveness ... some people would even call it "weakness," but the one thing that you have to admit about it is that it comes out of the depths of the heart ...

The aliens are part of our world now, but will their strangeness ever be integrated fully into our culture?

Ronald lives in Charleston, South Carolina where he spends his days running, reading, writing, and trying not to get on the nerves of his wife of 39 1/2 years. Gleefully retired from an unremarkable career in financial and social services, Ronald spends his hard won free time writing short stories with a southern theme and setting. His wife, mother, and daughter are his biggest fans because, well, they have to be.

Here's the recipe: icy winter, grumpy wife, over-stuffed car, add a new baby, and mix all together in a move ...

The revelation has been made, and humanity will change as a result. Not quite the way Orbis had hoped, but the road to successful enlightenment has more than one path ...

Ask him the name of his favorite song when you first meet him. It might save you a bit of heartache later ...

A native New Yorker, Bruce writes short stories in a mad search to one day create the definitive short story. In the meanwhile his works have appeared in SNM Horror Magazine, Demonic Tome, Freedom Fiction, and The Horror Zine.

Jilly's resolution ought to have been "Don't get involved with Celia's craziness ..."

David Mink says of himself, "I have been writing for several years now. My grown up job is being a funeral director in Ventura County, CA. I have also written an unpublished novel, 'Funeral On The Beach' and am currently working on another novel as well as another short story. Funeral directing is a third career; I toiled in Television Animation for 16 years, working for studios such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony and Knowledge Adventure."

Alexei Russell is an emerging writer living in Winnipeg, Canada. He had a great many jobs before realizing his University English teacher may have had something, when she suggested he'd be happiest as a writer. A believer in the maxim that a writer should try his hand at all genres, he has conquered all themes and genres, apart from Westerns--which he will get around to eventually.

Yes, sometimes it seems, you can go back, and things can change ... especially if you've done some changing yourself ...

At the last moment, you can change your mind -- but so can Fate ... and maybe Fate knows what you intended in the first place ...

Will is tired of that cat, and knows just the way to get rid of it. He just doesn't know enough about quantum mechanics to understand the consequences of his plan.

Who are you really? What you see in the mirror, or the reflection in your own heart?

A leap of faith, a gift of hope, and a stretch of the imagination -- freedom and joy!

What begins as a joke can turn serious -- if we're willing to allow it to do so. Sometimes how serious something becomes is kind of a joke, too ...

Bah! Humbug! Where are those blasted Christmas lights?

Some holiday windows are dark; remember those alone this Christmas.

Denied hope or comfort, some people turn to theft to maintain themselves. And if there's no chance of having a gift accepted ...

Oh, no, it's Nigel and Lucy Biatch again, and this time, they've infringed upon the smile of starlet Molly Ringwald ...