Zedlist – Part Twenty Nine
Serial Novel The lift doors shut, leaving Colin enclosed in his metal tomb. “This wasn’t meant to happen”, Kevin said. “There is no meant to happen”, Tim said, “there is only what is”. Without...
Tagged: new fiction
Jopp’s Folly – Part Two
Sci Fi Story The soft morning light felt like a laser beam on Jopp’s face as it shone through the bedroom window. He groaned as he attempted to pull himself up to a sitting...
The Human Comedy: Taxi Tao 2
Short Story Dana got into the taxi. “Port Authority,” she told the driver. “Absolutely,” said the driver, a mid-30s man with an unmistakably non-native face and accent. “Where are you from?” Dana asked...
Dream Repeats
Consciousness Stream Alone in my cold bedroom while sleeping and dreaming sometimes hellishly dark images would come in repeating frequency, for some twelve years from age seven to my late teens. The haunting...
Starbucks Soliloquies
Short Stories Somewhere, lost in Yemen, there stands a banana tree. Not just any banana tree…your banana tree. And your banana tree grows tall and fruitful as all banana trees should. Otherwise they...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part One: The Baker 39
Serial Novel The pipe opened a tiny metal box and fished out some tobacco. Packed it in his second pipe and handed it to him. The Baker’s contemplation of his line of argument vanished....
Fashionable Diplomacy
Sci-Fi Short Story This universe began on a spaceship. It was on this spaceship that the first intelligent form of communication occurred, which turned out to be in the common tongue of the...
Zedlist – Part Twenty Eight
Thriller Fiction “Focus on that energy, close your eyes gently and try to clear your mind. When a thought drifts in allow it to be there for as long as it needs to be...
Walking Beside Her
Stream of Consciousness Story The smell assaulted her senses like a river of floating, twirling turds. “What? Where is that stink coming from?” the woman in the leather sandals asked. For half a...
Animal Dilemmas – Zebras Gazelle
Short Story The surviving Gazelle skipped through the tall grasses in a panic until it could run no more. The herd was too far by then and the frail animal was left alone. The...
