40 min read stories

My grenadier, Specialist Taylor, did not attend our welcome home ceremony at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Coralville, Iowa, because in the...

Did you notice our daughter is not our daughter anymore?

Tuesday morning, Jillian from Disasters calls. Apparently an airman named Loolerton has poisoned a shitload of beavers. I say we don’t kill beavers, we...

“Drip on?” Abnesti said over the P.A.“What’s in it?” I said.“Hilarious,” he said.“Acknowledge,” I said.Abnesti used his remote. My MobiPak™ whirred. Soon the...

Wasn’t overcoming this feeling of fear what truly distinguished the brave?

SEPTEMBER 3rdHaving just turned forty, have resolved to embark on grand project of writing every day in this new black book just got at OfficeMax. Exciting...

In London, night came too soon. It hung in the morning air like a threat and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings...

A newly-married wife holds on to the only secret she feels she has left—a mystery her increasingly insidious husband is desperate to unravel.

Ali Baba discovers a wonderful cave of riches... but will the forty thieves discover him?

Princess Mayblossom is trapped in a tower, safe from a dangerous witch.

Once again I cursed to myself the idea of having planned this writing course

I woke to the sound of something creaking on the porch...