Fractions of Fiction

 In the darkened space, the end of a cigarette flared merrily red, and like a belated echo, two red eyes flickered just past them. The long ...

  Beyond the scant farmlands of home there is wilderness. Sprawls of uncontained forests, aching expanses of desert, and grasslands that loo...

 Brendel Eldrien rode in silence alongside his Silver Spear companions.  The border patrol around the western Keep was a boring post, at bes...

Many Years Ago...   "Have you seen my necklace?" "Which one?" The servant carried on her chores, dusting away at cobwebb...

  “Stay close.” Mother said. The forest around us slowly and steadily darkened.  There were eight of us in this group. Two weeks earlier the...

 Parking Ticket. Par-King Tick-Et. Parkingticket. ... Had he truly taken a vehicle out here? How interesting! How had he managed that? He co...

Madison sat in the living room. The news had cut out yesterday, after a particularly disturbing broadcast about how to destroy the livi...