Tag: Fiction
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Psychic Readings
“Rumours bred like mosquitos in stagnant water. Some said the new Greene was a ghost—that they had died in those woods and decided to haunt the town as revenge. Some said they were possessed by spirits or demons who used their child body to enact their devilish plans.”
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AN ALIEN’S GUIDE TO GETTING OUT OF HERE
“An orange sky, a rounded landscape, the architecture familiar and comforting. Everything you touch there touches you back”
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Sand Beast
“I’ve seen others flame out. Their bodies torched in a moment. A life here, then gone. Protein to ash. That’s how Bet died. I watched him go. Couldn’t even shout his name before he was cinders. Bet was like the sand. He was constant.”
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Elevate
“It was an expanse, their absorption into this shoreline mind. The network enclosed through and around them, each spiderweb thin tentacle seeped into them. All they knew was that this form was a good shape.”
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A Lucid Dream
“Will the bonds holding my particlestogether dis-en-gage let my flesh and hair and fluid leak onto this crumbling clifftop and will I be one with the earth?”
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Horse Girl
“Horse girl ain’t like the equestrian girls. All them love horses, but the equestrian girls are still girls, even when they stand in a herd swishing their ponytails.”