Short Stories
These are short stories I have written.
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The Promise
There was a chasm. It looked unassuming from the surface. It was round and very large. The village’s strongest swimmer took longer to cross it than the divers could hold their breath, though such a test was seldom done, for it was inauspicious for the living to enter its waters. That maw of deep, twilight Continue reading
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Leaves Falling Away
They never saw me coming: that was the nature of my work. They did not hear the shriek of my craft tearing past their position, nor the roar of the missile volley I fired at their satellite. Sound does not travel in space, but rockets do. I wondered what those final moments looked like. What Continue reading
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A Neon Rain
Ever since I was a kid, I hated performing. The lights were always too damn bright, and I suffered from terrible stage fright. You know, the kind that gets you all clammy and tense and your fingers get stiff. Then you miss a note nobody noticed, a pang of anxiety blasts through your entire body Continue reading