BUTTERED, HONEYED, AND FLECKED (p.1)

2644 Words

A retiree reluctantly adopts four children to appease her young wife, but their simple life is challenged when a fifth child reappears after being presumed dead. 

ANATOMY OF A DREAMSHOP

1978 Words

An artisan crafts medicinal dreams.

MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE

587 Words

The origin of Artificial Intelligence falls upon an unlikely set of musical machines.

FACEHAT

810 Words

A head looking up, a face to mask the bald spot.

FROM LOST TO LASTING

4062 Words

Dr. Neil Watts and Dr. Alistar McAnders dive into the fading mind of a car crash victim at Eva's request.

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A "To the Moon" fan fiction.

ROBBING TAMASHI'S

2252 Words

Two second-generation Japanese hoodlums try to rob a convenience store only to be puppeted by its destructive owner.

THE VETERENS

4341 Words

Wasted in a ghostly war, the trash grows new life, clawing upward to find the great Makers.

EVERY 20 YEARS

1496 Words

An immortal scrawls casual snippets of his meandering life entries every twenty years.

CLEANSE OF SAND (p.1)

6082 Words

Diamond sand claims to cleanse the world's water. But how do the lonely quarry workers, trapped in a foreign world, hold out when science jeopardizes the worth of their efforts?

Part 1 of a 2-part sci-fi story.

SPOTS

893 Words

A dry retelling of when the human population became afflicted with spots.