Do you do everything they tell you? She looked across the room. The whisper of the tentacles weaving through the air, caressing the inside of her ear. We’re your world. Your creation. Not them. It said again. The whisper of a thousand voices. a thousand small, sucking circles reaching out, waiting for something to stick…
Category: Fantasy
Soup & Salt
The tickle and been in her throat all day. She wasn’t sick and she hadn’t eaten anything that would cause her an allergic reaction, but she couldn’t shake it. Nothing had helped her – not tea, not water, no soft foods or crunchy cereal. At least twice an hour she forced out a cough just…
F-U-N-eral
She was screaming at the top of her lungs but no one could hear her. Instead they all continued to come to say their own versions of their goodbyes. Miranda was very aware of what was happening. For starters, she had a vague memory of her death. She had been eating a meatball, a mini…
Winged Angels
When the world was still run by men anything inexpiable, female, or defiant had to be re-imagined masculine. That way it would be understood – that way it could be accepted. The best example was the story behind thunder and rain. For years fathers had told their children that it was God in a bowling…
Shades of Voices (Original)
It was a typical city apartment. Small, boxy, and brown. The space that was designated for the kitchen was unremarkable and almost unmemorable. Everything was yellow and brown from the linoleum on the floor to the wallpaper that covered the walls. The oven was turned on, doing its best to perfectly tenderize the Idaho yellow…