Short Stories

Short Stories

Flash Fiction, Microfiction, and short short stories.

  • Killing Mattie O’Shea

    “Okay. You’re here. Have a seat. What do you want to know?”

  • †Losing Control

    Ruby, a mercurial student comes calling to reconcile her professor and meet the wife.

  • †MadBooks

    When Sarah revisits the bookstore that ruined her life, a maze of crime, lust, and betrayal, she decides what happened there isn’t finished.

  • Coltart’s Daughter

    The stylish yeoman stomps in from the midnight raging squall through the heavy wooden door. Above him, the spectral serpent sits perched in the rafters in the dust and dark of the defrocked house of worship and spits. It raises up on haunches, back stiffening with anticipation in the foul and fetid public house. With…

  • Acceptance

    Three AM. Unable to sleep. I turn over to touch him. But his side is cold. The sheets are neat and undisturbed. It’s not the first time for this. My nightly dreams of little feet pattering down the hall, cherub cheeks giggling with joy have all but faded away now.  I’ve ached for so long…