Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  A rare beast is finally found. Excerpt: Lumley stepped closer to the desk. “I was out in the Green Woods over the weekend. It started as a hike. Nuñez, the TA who works for Professor Clardin,

Description: #Audio. #Monologue The Scaly Truth of a Suburban Mermaid This episode contains explicit language Excerpt: Ordinary humans are told to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but that’s assuming eight-ounce glasses. Me?

Description: #Audio. #Haibun  Flip side of “Carob Drops.” Excerpt: “Still, it makes it difficult to sleep. When I cannot sleep, I like to read, and your mother has mentioned that you, too, like stories, so I have brought you one of my favorites.

  Description: #Audio. #shortshort An exercise in 3rd person omniscient storytelling. Excerpt: Claudia looked around. “You’re my last customer,” she said. “Wait a moment.” She left his side and went to lock the doors and flip the signs from OPEN to CLO...

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  An experiment with #haibun. Excerpt: Similarly, the lightning flashing beyond the glass window is not my only illumination. I have a lantern, a book, a mug of peppermint tea with a lot of honey in it, and,

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #BasilandZoe A relationship switches gears. Excerpt: “Basil,” I made his name into something like an admonishment. “You’re my friend, too, aren’t you? I wouldn’t have invited you if I didn’t want you there.

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #Horror.  Eternity means different things to different people. Excerpt: Ever the storyteller, Diego chose to tell different stories with his paintings. Instead of capturing encounters between gods and men,

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #An exercise in description Excerpt: “Fix me,” the timepiece seems to whisper, as the daylight turns to night and the shadows lengthen on the wooden floor. “Make me useful again.

Description: #Audio. #Flashfiction #A completely human, earthbound moment. With tea. Excerpt: They’d rented their first apartment together – a horrible sixth-floor walk-up with a toilet that whistled for three full minutes after every flush and a claw-...

Description: #Audio. #ShortShort  A challenge to write a story about birth. Excerpt: “Am I being kidnapped?” he asks, only half-kidding. “Nope. Rescued.” The corpsman is the size of a linebacker, black, with dark eyes that are difficult to read.