The Next Big Thing

I have been nominated to take part in The Next Big Thing, by Mark Ethridge. Thanks so much for tagging me, buddy! Q1. What is the title of your Work in Progress? I have two works in progress at the moment, but the one that is closest to completion is The Duality Principle. Q2. Where […]

Thursday Threads Week 46

It’s a game he liked to play. To send me out on dates, to see how well his little pet could spin her web, seducing prey she had no interest in. “So what do you do?” My date looked at me with hopeful eyes from across the table. I found him on Match. I’d already […]

Fifty Five Word Challenge Week 33

Honorable Mention He appears from the stone in the graveyard bearing his name, born from cold rock. Yet his flesh is warm. She’s felt him hovering over her body, giving her ghostly fits of ecstatic pleasure. “Did you bring the knife?” His voice is barely a whisper. “Forever,” she answers, and plunges the blade into […]

You’ve Gotta Have Faith

“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs I’ve never been a person who put much stock into having faith. As a child, I often […]

Tuesday Tales Week 63

“So we’re being recusant?” Lilly grins. She leans back and throws an arm behind her head. “You and your vocabulary.” Jack’s jaw works. “You know what it means, don’t you, pet?” Lilly nods. Spreads her legs. Lifts one ankle and slides it out along the coffee table. “I do, Sir.” He stalks toward her. Lilly […]

Fifty Five Word Challenge Week 31

“Where are you taking me?” Robbed of sight from the blindfold, Lila’s hands reach out. Touches a curved wall, brick after brick. Clasps a metal pole. Stairs. “Just start climbing.” She can feel the smile on Jordan’s lips as he feeds his whisper into her ear. Lila smiles into the darkness. Their game has begun.

Rapture

“You’re about to come, aren’t you, pet?” Colton hovers over Darcy and grasps her bound wrists. His firm grip around the ropes is a stark contrast to the soft slip of his fingertips across her slickened skin. “Aren’t you?” he demands. Darcy moans a raw, rasping sound and tightens her fist around the bell. If […]

Five Minute Fiction Week 122

October third was a Friday. The day that I met Sam. I didn’t know then it was also the day that he died. It seems impossible now to think of. It is impossible that a man so full of life, so full of passion, could have his final breaths stolen from him before he was […]

Thursday Threads Week 42

‘Everything’s going to be okay.’ Elaine reads the words over and over again, black against white on the screen in front of her. She tries to taste every letter. Rub her fingers over them. Hear them in her mind in the soft, deep cadence of his voice she’s only heard over the phone. ‘I don’t […]

Fifty Five Word Challenge Week 30

Honorable Mention: Sunlight. Graham can almost see it though the spires of disease that bristled at his flesh, breaking him down until he was crawling through leaves on the mottled floor. He doesn’t hear Layla whisper, “Don’t leave me.” Her words hush with the dense wood of cancer he leaves behind, floating away until he […]