browser icon
You are using an insecure version of your web browser. Please update your browser!
Using an outdated browser makes your computer unsafe. For a safer, faster, more enjoyable user experience, please update your browser today or try a newer browser.

Tagged With: Writing

Headstart Elan

Pre-conception screening hadn’t turned up anything, so the Kieslowski-Millers spent their entire discretionary health stipend on a Headstart Elan package for Harriet-to-be. Most parents of healthy children did. Continue reading »

Categories: Fiction, Flash, Writing | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Fictive Dream: Disease

I had invited the personification of Disease to meet with me in my castle, which was partly in the physical realm and partly in a sort of dataspace. When she arrived, she looked like a woman in a robe of ragged lace, with long, tangled hair and solid white eyes.

Categories: Fiction, Writing | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Mrs. Antioch’s Shadow

Mrs. Antioch had never read Jung or any of his disciples, and remained quite innocent of any knowledge of the Shadow.

Categories: Fiction, Writing | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I, Roe-Bot

This was inspired by Cory Doctorow’s “I, Robot” and “I, Rowboat” and originally appeared online as part of International Pixel-Stained TechnoPeasant Day. I, Roe-Bot by Sharon Mock The salmon are spawning again.

Categories: Fiction, Writing | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Funeral Suppers

Of course you don’t remember Jeremy, my dear; you weren’t born yet, so you didn’t get any of him,

Categories: Fiction, Flash, Writing | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Sales Pitch

I used to be like you.  Scraping by from paycheck to paycheck.  Harrassed by debt-collectors. 

Categories: Writing | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Shining City – one

For the first time in fifteen years I looked up from my road to see the sky. Presumably every possible

Categories: Fiction, Flash, Writing | Tags: , , | Leave a comment