The Parade
This is not an erotic story. The only one I ever wrote that wasn’t. It’s based on a series of six drawings made by Mr. Masayoshi Takamoto, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing of August 6th, 1945. His interview and his drawings appeared a documentary called “Drawing A-Bomb Memories,” produced by NHK Television, Japan, in […]
Twitterfiction: My Bloody Valentine (A Romance of Sorts)
@_Monocle_ (Raziel Moore) and I started to construct this little piece of back and forth Twitter fiction just as an exercise to get over our respective writing blocks. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twitter, it requires that the users post each post in 140 characters or less, so the writing is necessarily […]
Twitter Fiction: 10 Legs Good, 2 Legs Bad
Once upon a time, there was a alien who looked a great deal like a giant insect. He came to earth in search of a mate. He trolled the bars for a while, but that didn’t really go down well. Being very arthropod-like in appearance, he got rejected often, and usually quite rudely. He also […]
The Night Shift
“Oh yeah, baby. Fuck, that feels good! Mmm. Faster, baby, faster. Like that… oh yes… oh yes…OH YEAH!!!” click 08:48 “Hit me.” Emma, sitting opposite me cross-legged on the carpet, slid another card across the empty space between us. I picked it up and looked at it in dismay. “Emma, you bitch! Were you choosing […]
Hole
The room was chilly and beige. It smelled faintly of stale cigarette smoke and carpet shampoo. Beyond the open curtains the streetlamps splayed in the cold, winter air. From her place in the nondescript beige armchair, Emma thought the man on the bed looked vulnerable. Lit by the gloom of the bedside lamps, Sean lay […]
The Virtue of Patience
On January 2nd, 2009, Jeremy Sykes stepped into the crowded elevator that took him to his office on the 44th floor. The passengers were bundled up against the winter cold. Some looked tanned from recent winter holidays in warmer climes, but all exuded that air of barely contained ill temper that inevitably haunts everyone who […]
Short Stories
Ghost Marks With one slender finger, Rachel pushed the crystal king onto its side with a click. It rocked back and forth on its round base on the marble chessboard.Her father’s eyes flitted over the chessboard, tracing lines of power. “What the hell do you think your doing?†“I’m resigning.†[…] Bequeathed The key slid […]
Twitterotica: Not in the Manual
Being dead, I noticed stuff. The guy who moved into the apartment was a little guarded. He moved in on his own and, although no one ever came over, he still closed the bedroom door to undress. Not that the door poses a challenge for me. I’m just saying. For the first few weeks, I […]
Real Woman
“Sh-h.” That’s how I wake you. A serpent sound poured into your ear. You surface to full consciousness the way you always do: naked, sprawled on your stomach, limbs carelessly outstretched like the beast of luxury you are. But this time, something is not right. As you try to turn onto your back, you find […]
Click – Podcasted
Lying on his belly in the middle of a rice paddy, Carl showed the new trainee, Sovann, how to come at the anti-personnel mine, partially embedded in the muck, at a 30 degree angle and gently touch the knife tip to the side of the box, feeling for give. The young man, sweating as profusely […]