Stories & Poems - page 8

• betrayal 6
• dark 20
• dark-intimate 8
• domestic-noir 7
• drama 29
• eerie 31
• fantasy 8
• grounded 105
• horror 11
• humour 17
• identity 6
• intimacy 55
• kith-kin 56
• loss 5
• melancholy 58
• poetry 41
• solitude 88
• speculative 74
• tension 58
• thriller 18
• wit 60

I gave some old stories a little love and polish. Find them here. They are my personal favourites.

Winter in a Nutshell

less than 1 minute read

You don’t have to shovel rain.

Snowfall

less than 1 minute read

arms wide and eyes closed

Down the Hill

less than 1 minute read

“You wax the flyer?

Blankets

less than 1 minute read

“But we have to keep warm,” Jake pleaded as he dropped a pile of blankets on the couch.

A Beginning…

less than 1 minute read

Amy wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and flushed the toilet quickly before her mother asked questions.

The Sentinel

2 minute read

My name is Gracie and I am the Sentinel.

What Am I?

less than 1 minute read

We’re twins, you and I.

One Last Letter

3 minute read

Ricky checked his mailbox everyday at just before noon, rain or shine.

Resolve

less than 1 minute read

“Happy New Year!

Barbecue

2 minute read

Okay, Nicholas.

Whoops

less than 1 minute read

Special ornament

Gramp’s Grace

less than 1 minute read

I’m not a religious man, but sitting at head of the table where my grandfather would have normally sit, I looked around to my rarely-assembled family, all ea...