Short Stories

slow motion

As if in slow motion, people roared – they cheered – celebrating with mad delight; glasses raised, eyes ablaze with…

Eternity

He reclined with naturally graceful poise upon the springy sofa and watched memories being made. Surrounding him, circling him as…

Opera Mystique

There was once a man whom no one knew. He lived in a cottage on a quiet, quaint and quintessentially…

Surf

The current flowed beneath her surfboard like electricity surging into a plug-socket. The waves were powerful; so too was the…

Psyche

Her succulent little toes curling in the sand, she stood before him reverently – almost bowed – slender of body…

The Sovad Hotel

Numerous social circles saw it as the last remaining vestige of the old world, like a lost city, a sanctuary…

Klementine (A Portrait)

Quiet desperation filled the room, like the scent of lavender perfume in the bridal suite of a royal chateau. This…

Commute

The wheels of the train revolved beneath them in perpetually accelerating cycles. They roared and rumbled through a vast labyrinth-like…

In Memoria

There were frozen spiderwebs in the frosty morning, touched with dew like a shiny gloss. There was golden sunlight on…

Visions of a Rural Dawn

At dawn the tall trees cast long shadows over the meadow, like silhouette angels or spirits in the early morning…

A Dazzling Daze

I. They were dazed, nay sozzled; smiling, safely within serenity. A warm fuzzy glow absorbed them in its blanket of…

Edenesque

Her eyes blazed a bright sparkling blue, like a shallow sea shore. Her heart was wild and free; her soul…

The Sailor

His hands were coarse, his stubble rugged and manly, his lips hardened from enduring long nights of biting wind in…

Mojave: Desert Solace

Was there once a hymn or poem or painting so achingly poignant, so piercingly beautiful, so breathtakingly, awe-inspiringly divine –…

Joseline (Part II) - A Study in Despair

The silence seemed to devour her, like an invisible force pressing upon her from every conceivable angle, crushing her. The…

Joseline (Part I) – Before the Fall

She had a jolly, tender face, her ruddy red cheeks the hue of warm pinkish-purple blush, matching the shade of…

Ode to a Fantasy

Oh, how I wish I couldn’t see this tragically bleak graveyard of derelict industrial warehouses and factories, once heaving with…

Little Jean

As a young boy in the olden days, his hair was fine as silk and white as snow, bleached by…

Lonesome Limousine Ride

Behind the tinted windows of a slender stretched limousine, he skulks; his scornful stare shielded behind dark horn-rimmed sunglasses and…

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