short story

My hands trembled, the drink spilling sideways while I tried to find her. The spritz wasn’t cute, the orange slice sunk below the ice. She took it from my hand and smiled, but I knew she would not go home with me. She pretended to have a phone call, she had the calculator open, looked […]

The excavators arrived lifting dust. The scream of men organizing labor. Nobody told them anything. Not even a sign of their turtle god. The bucket buried its metal claws in the soil and threw it in the largest part of the stream, a pond under an old bridge. The order was simple, fill half of […]

Was I visible? I don’t know, I couldn’t know, I saw myself through his mind. The frothy waves unburying me from the warm sand. I felt something poking me, it was not very smart, I repelled it, I needed brain power, at least until I could replenish myself. I felt soft claws digging me out, […]

We had what we wanted from each other. You can’t pretend you are sick with me and of me. You wanted me, I am here by no accident. You had prepared the right soil, the right temperature and the food I relished the most. You even gave me a family. Your huge eyes searched for […]

She was lazy. The files accumulated on her desk, she scratched her belly and her index finger adventured into her belly button, removing a stinky crust. She ate the half sandwich forgotten on her desk for days and tossed both human and cat files on her desk. “CDS working again!” She stapled the files together, […]

Lady cake was coming slowly, with tiny tiny steps, scared of pebbles and dust, holding her crown with one hand and a small fan in the other. Lady cake understood she was delicate, round and heavy. Lady cake walked a beaten pathway. She did not dare to look at her own feet but felt the […]

It was not that big, perhaps even small, I couldn’t tell, the tower was destroyed. The base survived with the door frame, still standing with only five steps of the stairs, I came here for the first time to hide after doing mischief at home. “First time you came, you were this tiny”. He pointed […]

“She’s coming, she’s coming!” Shivering, the voice left his body squeaking, he heard soft steps, his eyes were covered by the wool blanket. “C’mon, now!”, all of them held hands and tried to go to the bottom of the pit. It was too late, the paw clanged on the blanket, they saw her claws piercing […]

“I am a warrior, you wouldn’t understand.” Manu looked at the merman, head to tail, his worm was not thick, it danced too much on her wrist. She preferred merman that possessed a fat worm, it was nothing personal, just her preference, really. She moved the hook on the left corner of her mouth with […]

It was born dead, you and I. We were complete strangers, then strangers that got intimate and back to complete strangers again. I came home and took a hot shower. I squeezed three pumps of body wash on my washcloth to scratch you completely out of my skin and went to sleep. I had to […]