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...
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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...
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...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part One: The Baker 38
Literary Novel He mumbled something to the driver, took his tie and those square shoes off, fixed his stare at the back of his head and stopped thinking. He probably should have asked for...
Best and Worst Flights – Part Two
Contemporary Story W.O.R.S.T F.L.I.G.H.T.: Nope, that’s not an abbreviation, just an emphasis of how bad my worst flight EVER really was. My worst flight occurred when I was leaving Australia after having lived...
To My New Love
Short Story “Oh, who cares,” we sometimes think at our most blue moments. “I am boring and it is boring and writing about it all is boring too.” At times like these we...
Animal Dilemmas – Gazelles Rhino
Short Story The two Rhinos walked out of the slow river and headed for rain water pond in the center of the salty patch of soil. They have hydrated well and were craving salt....
A Day Trip into the Brain
“Alright, is everyone on board? No? Oh, well then, ma’am, your son will still be there when we return (hopefully). No, we can’t wait, we have to leave now. There is a small window...
Eye of the Envious – Part Two
Short Story I didn’t have my first panic attack until my plane landed in Heathrow and it sunk in that I no longer had my own permanent home back in New York. The...
Janie’s Glow in the Dark Stars
Short Story Janie walked into the kitchen and saw peanut butter on the floor. “What are you doing?” She said. Her dad bent down and picked her up, placing her on his big right shoulder....
