Hoboken – 2003 A rumor floats around the streets of Hoboken, more seedy than any of the “city’s” diviest bars. Years ago Manhattan was filled with vigilantes and mutants (or Superheros as your perspective might go), now the closest thing New York City has to the liking is a mayor who cleaned up the subways…
Mask
Halloween is great. You get to be something you’re not. You get to hide behind a mask or a costume. You get to disguise yourself. This year I’m going as an angel, because what’s more dramatic than me going as a heavenly creature? I’ll tell you- nothing. It’s the last role anyone would expect me…
Mission Complete
The time is 13:05. The day is Monday. Break is over. We are back in it now. We are told to sit. Everyone does. Everyone, except Schneider. Earlier, during recess, he pushed me. No one of importance noticed, of course. None of the higher-ups, just the same low-lives as me and him. That bastard gets…
Obsessive Compulsive
Originally published in Suspense Magazine, December 2013. It was still relativity early on Friday night, but one look outside, and one would have thought it was deep into the middle of the night. That’s how our receptionist felt, like she was all alone in the dead of night about to close an office that no…
I Made You (First Draft)
“Youve been made,” was all the text said. No punctuation marks, no name, no context – just three simple words: you’ve, been, made. “Youve been made” Made – like a mark. Or when you know the con. It seemed impossible though. In an age of catfishing, stolen identities, and celebrity presidents everything seems like a…
I’m crazy, but I know it… so, relax
Fire burned in her chest. How could one person be so incredibly fucking stupid, selfish, and invilidic all at the same time? Especially when the moronic cupcake was your mother. Caitlin had always felt that she and her mother were akin fire and ice. They both had their benefits and their drawbacks. Her mother was…
He Hadn’t Thought
He hadn’t thought of her in weeks. Well, maybe wasn’t not entirely true. He caught glimpses of her sporadically throughout his mind. When he saw a piece of her hair – just the tip sticking out of his blanket, the rest woven in the material – or a commercial for her firm. But he hadn’t…
The Smell of You – Version 2
Later she would catch pieces of his scent and travel back to this moment in her mind. She doesn’t know that know though. Now, she knows that he’s going to go home. That she has another hour before she has to wake up. She knows by his hand gently encompassing her back, under her shoulder…
Pain Lust
The searing hot push relented as suddenly as it had started. The pain did not. She could feel his release covering her scorched skin. It burned, but she liked it. It had taken a while to get him to this point. It took William a while to get anywhere, even with her persistence. But she…
The Smell of You
Later she would catch pieces of his scent and travel back to this moment in her mind. She doesn’t know that know though. Now, she knows that he’s going to go home. That she has another hour before she has to wake up. She knows by his hand gently encompassing her back, under her shoulder…