The Birthday

May wakes up with a start. She squeezes her eyelids shut again, crunches the grey sheet between her legs, pushes her head into the pillow, inhales…


The Genie

Human beings are simple, mostly. When we walk into a crowd of people, we usually never take the time to differentiate an individual from the herd.…


Community Support

Divorcee Jimmy Cartwright had just finished a day’s graft, working cash in hand for his old pal Chris. Just a bit of donkey work for his landscaping…


Turin Fog

The rain dripped: drip, drip, drip. The sound distracted me from watching a movie on the TV, Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy, laying on the sofa with my…


Beware the Owl Serpent

Every day, when he returned to his skid row hotel, Eric imagined himself returning to a huge hungry swallowing mouth. Inside, he padded through the…


Blissful Ignorance

1 January 2094, Friday HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm glad I managed to get a new diary. I have no idea where the last one went, but at some point, I suppose I…


Following the Freak

The Boss had made his declaration with a red face and a T-shirt caked with sweat. “We need everyone to be as vigilant as possible. Governor Morrison…


Cyber Punk: Disc 3

III. Stepping outside, I saw that the whole complex was suffering from the outage. Everything was half-shadowed, the only light source being the…


Croatoan

"Boomers overinvested in personality Gen Xers cultivated an ironic detachment toward personality Millennials were constantly told that had…


The Familiar

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, whoever knocks." --- William Shakespeare, Macbeth Aloof from the…