Friday Fiction: The Possibly Magical Bird (Part 1)
We said this story would be whimsical, and let it never be said we don’t deliver on whimsey. Unlike last week’s tale of magic and a lost cellphone, this story will take a few parts to tell.
Tagged: short story
Friday Fiction: Shape Painter’s Lament
This is a silly one, folks. We’ve done many serious, intense, or frightening stories, but this is resolutely not one of them. This is a low fantasy, low-stakes comedy. Because even in a world with a unique form of magic, there are still very human, day-to-day problems. Problems I’m sure a lot of us have had.
Friday Fiction: Blue Sky World
Ever stared outside your window, thinking about all manner of things? What if that sky could invite you to stay for a while?
Friday Fiction: Love and The Echoing People
Today, a very different story than we’ve had in a while. There are no monsters, no horrible revelations. And certainly nothing creeping out of the night. This is a story of two people on a date, one leading the other.
Friday Fiction: The Neighborhood (Part 3 of 3)
We’re so glad to see you back. Glad to see you weren’t too frightened to witness yet more unspeakably scary things. Our final part of this three-part tale details the full horror and scope of what’s been happening in this neighborhood.
Friday Fiction: The Neighborhood (Part 2 of 3)
We’ve already begun this drop into unspeakably scary things, but we’ve yet more to see of what there is to discover.
Friday Fiction: The Neighborhood (Part 1 of 3)
Dear reader, today we have a story about unspeakably scary things. It’s a tale about a neighborhood and its residents. A tale of unexpected horror. A family’s normal life is about to intersect with something alien and dangerous.
Friday Fiction: The Tree Bakery
This story is a trick. The happy title hides a much more terrifying narrative. If you embark on this, you must know what you’re getting into. This is not a tale of whimsey.
Friday Fiction: The Undectable Lunchbox
Have you ever had a coworker steal your lunch? Ever found that the meal you brought from home was no longer where you meant it to be? What if, in this hypothetical scenario, you also could make almost any piece of technology you wanted and had basically infinite resources?
Friday Fiction: A Wish For Something Convenient
If you could wish for anything, dear reader, what would it be? And, more importantly, how would you phrase that wish to avoid it backfiring?
Friday Fiction: It Desires Unchanging Things
Dear reader, to say much more than the title of this story ruins the surprise. The horrific gut punch at the center of this odd tale. So, I must ask you to trust me on this one.
Friday Fiction: Glitched
It’s a long-ago established idea in science fiction that we might live in some computer program. And thinking about it can lead down so many roads of thought. What does that mean about our lives, about our personalities? Who are we outside the simulation?
“So many people get shived!” – Merril
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