Flash fiction, excerpts, short stories, hybrid work, poems, and other creative writing.
Category: Creative Writing
The Graveyard: Chapter 3
Chapter 3 By Michael Chrobak Read Chapter 1 here and Chapter 2 here. Creativity…dying? How can that be? I wondered as I stared into the placid, expressionless faces assembled before me. I could tell they were waiting …
The Dragon Seller Teaser
THE DRAGON SELLER by Federico Ferrario “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its …
Spirit of Detroit/It Shan’t Be Us
by Federico Ferrario Then we had been forgotten. The tide came and went with the strength of millions of lives. On breaking, it consumed the land and sent up the first chimneys blackening the windows and the …
The Graveyard: Chapter 2
The Graveyard: Chapter 2 Read chapter 1 here. Outside the door, I found a plain, boring, nondescript hallway. Every fifty feet or so stood another door, just like the one I had come out of. The hallway …
Absolute Threshold
ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD by Federico Ferrario Vision. Only if the night is clear and the gaze is serene they say you can see to the other side of the Channel, or from Belfast a flame in the dark …
Treacherous Hope
A guest fiction by author Dana Fraedrich The world is empty. I don’t know what happened. They’re all just…gone. It’s not like the movies and TV shows where this sort of thing happens. At least it wasn’t …
MADNESS
A Short Story By Robert J. Waguespack “Hold still. Stop moving around.” Jeff tries not to fidget. He always fidgets when he’s nervous, his mom would tell him that. He and his wife, Margie, hide in the …
The Graveyard
A guest story by Michael Chrobak Fear. It was all that I felt. Terror gripped my muscles. My heart raced. My eyes were wide. What was it that had frightened me so? I squished my eyes tight …
Tibetan Lemonade 