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The mission of a story.

I wanted to write something different. Something that you could later describe to a friend as quirkey or weird. Anything really. As long as it was not ordinary. As long as it stayed away from that black spot of the human mind where things are lost, hiding behind the affirming nods and understanding smiles. It’s […]

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Darkness

She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door. The door was colored white, but she could see through the exposed scars the original grain of the wood. Through the door was black. Calling it “dark” would be an understatement. It seemed she had found the negative […]

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Desperation

I gasped for life, knowing full well at that moment I should have been dead. I sucked up madly every last droplet from whatever source the water had come from. I could no longer remember how long it had been since I had last had a drink. In order to survive I let myself fall […]

A piece of lettuce fell in my shoe

A piece of lettuce fell into my shoe. Shredded lettuce, if you were curious, from a B.L.T. sandwich if you were really curious. If you were even more curious than that then it was during lunch, as I sat on a bench of poured concrete on the side of canyon that looked out towards the ocean. […]

A Dream, no. 1

I was home. The home that was brick, that was surrounded with green, that was safe. I was in my childhood. Of course he would come into that place. A place of such powerful memory. A place that is precious to me. A place that I dare not indulge in for fear that I may break […]

This is for you

Susan wanted to scream. Up above her, the sky was at the clearest of blues. After 3 weeks of downpour her backyard was a brown mess of drowning dead grass and half buried bottles. She took it as a sign it was time to leave. Yet now, out of nowhere, the sun came out to […]

Color blind, hue #1

There was once a boy, who was born by the crashing waves of the sea! Excuse me, I sometimes have a flair for dramaticism, please don’t misinterpret my meaning, for it is not supposed to sound more fantastical than necessary. Let me try once more, simply put this time. When the boy came […]

PREVIEW: Warm Wood

This is a preview of the first pages for the upcoming short story, “Warm Wood”. I am a avid fan of spaghetti westerns and wanted to write a story with my own take on an iconic weapon, the 1873 Winchester repeating rifle, more well known as… The Gun That Won The West. Warm Wood […]

Falling for Apples, part one

It was an ordinary day when Isaac set out on his escape. A day when the weather gave no evidence towards a single imperfection, yet never satisfactory enough so as to be remarked in the books of history. Look at the pages yourself and notice no blemish there made by the beauty of nature. […]

The Procession

14th Week of the Harvest, in the Third year of the Setting Sun. I was nervous, scanning the cobbled street in front of us. There was too much to look at and I could do nothing to slow my racing heart. Instinct had taught me to survey every face that I could; to make out […]