Welcome to day twenty-one of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Unloved Unloved, alone, he sits and cries. Orphaned, unwanted. Is he so bad that the world can’t love him? How … [Read more…]
Welcome to day twenty of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Trapped I am trapped, suffocating. I can’t breathe. My chest feels heavy, tight, like I can’t get enough air in no … [Read more…]
Welcome to day nineteen of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Strangers Last week, I met a man on a train. A chance encounter. We talked. I told him things about myself … [Read more…]
Welcome to day eighteen of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Regrets Regrets. I have so many. So much I would do differently. They eat at me, pushing me closer to the … [Read more…]
Time for the (slightly late as usual) review of Misery by Stephen King, the first review from the books on April’s reading list. I am a huge Stephen King fan and I have been since my mid-teens. Misery was one of the first books of his I read. I was sorting through some books looking … [Read more…]
Welcome to day seventeen of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Quiet It’s so quiet. Peaceful. Except quiet doesn’t bring me peace. Quiet allows my mind to wander, allows me to think. … [Read more…]
Welcome to day sixteen of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Power They say money is the root of all evil. They are wrong. Power is the root of all evil. Money … [Read more…]
Welcome to day fourteen of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Night The night time is the worst. It’s when the bogeyman comes out to play. It is witching hour and devil’s hour. … [Read more…]
Welcome to day thirteen of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Marooned I am marooned, stranded on an island of my own making. I shun society and now society shuns me. I am … [Read more…]
Welcome to day twelve of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy. Love It was inevitable that I would end up here. I knew something wasn’t right with him from the moment I … [Read more…]