Dick said that after a while he just sat in the road at 55 miles an hour.
Something Black
Tag: short story
Theories of Forgetting
The trauma a soldier suffered at war and how he tries to cope after returning home.
Heartless
A science fiction short story about robots living with humans.
Wards End
Charles is a child with dwarfism who moves to his recently deceased grandfather’s lake house with his sometimes-excessively worried mother.
The Orphans
Two very different people meet.
Senior Mementos
Fading memories are awakened and new love blossoms within the beat cafes and soda fountains of the mind.
Play Date Gone Wrong
This short story is from the perspective of a five-year-old who is confronted with things heard on the news.
First Love
A short story about class difference within the confined space of a boarding school.
Caesar or Nothing
Georgina looks at my black eye and damaged face with appalled concern but is too polite and professional to ask.
The Day We Met
Sometimes the most unexpected sequence of events leads us to our destined path.
Necessary Goodbyes
Bobbie discloses an agonizing secret to her best friend and discovers that even the people you’re closest to may never really know you.
The Tears of the World
A ghost story that takes a deep bow to Samuel Beckett.
Unending Encore
A fictional short story about the pressures and expectations of gladiators and how their struggle relates to us today.
Gray Dawn
A law student recovers an expensive oil painting from a shady art dealer for a mobster.
Hunting Blind
Growing up on the east side, Cleveland, Ohio.
Between You, Me, and The Devil
A dead man from Texas has hopes of meeting with the Devil in Hell.