Sound Check
by K.C. Shaw This story first appeared on The Voice of Dog on October 8, 2020. It's also available in Shaw's story collection, _Catfish and Other Stories_. Anna slumped against the bus window and stared at the unmoving traffic. She wasn’t sure what...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-four (and a half)
Perversely, the people who had treated him the best had been the ones who were, according to his contemporaries, supposed to be his oppressors.
Limerent Object (parts 11-15)
# 11 There is a strangely comforting humiliation to the act of confession, to admitting to the one on the other side of that screen just how long it has been since you engaged with your sins so directly, so honestly. You kneel on that delightfully...
What I saw.
I jumped in the ocean And I opened up my eyes To see, a shadow of me Floating on by He said, in a hushed tone "Are you still alive?" "It's one thing to exist and another to survive." I knew from experience I knew I couldn't swim I stayed...
Blind Man's Bluff
Quiet and contemporary, the place was seldom packed. a nice quiet place to sit and have a drink. it soon became one of my regular haunts. heck, they even had a booth waiting for me every time i showed up anymore.
Poem # 20
I feel like fire races about through my body, My nerves crackle in my mind, Pain lances through out my form. Even as the thunder rumbles outside, I can feel the lightning swirling through the clouds, It crackles and crashes, The sound rough on...
Limerent Object (parts 31-35)
I would find myself tracing the paving stones or the catenary arc of the contemporary entrance to st. francis abbey if i left them open. > _out of the depths i cry to you, o lord. lord, hear my voice!
Kory
That’s four. The car speeds away. The guys inside are laughing even though their water balloon missed me by about three feet. There’s something scrawled on the latex, but the acrid scent of its contents doesn’t exactly encourage me to get closer....
Corwin Hall, Chapter 16
Chapter 16 "Brutus, I need a towel," Arvetis said as he entered the small kitchen. "Get it yourself!" Brutus replied, and went back to his conversation with Lisa. "So he said there were other dreams-" "Brutus!" Arvetis's body was...
Demons and Data: Part 01
It's called fashion/trendy, and just like contemporary fashion, it's weird and expensive. although this has practical purposes. either way, read, and please provide feedback. "her throat bloated as a thick glop of saliva forced its way down.
Lenny Gets a Job: As a Maid in a Mansion
Lenny's progress through the house was very much following suit of how he started. To his own amusement, he found it easy to work faster fixing sink after sink, and toilet after toilet. He hooked pipes together this way and that way, moved...
Dreamcatchers chapter 1
The car slowly came to a stop in front of the local high school, my eyes drifting over the black and blue logo, the contemporary style of the building contrasting with the older bungalows on the campus, a sea of young adults and teenagers storming