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Prose & Short Stories
where little wonders are spoken (not novels)
Short fiction is a passion of mine. Being able to tell a story in any form, in any length, is such an art of its own - but here, below you, are a series of pieces I wrote and deliver to you now, for enjoyment, for the sake of passion, or, I don't know, because you get to take a peek into my weird, kooky brain.
Amaryllis in 8E
Appointed to be the Armbrook Apartments' new caretaker, a young man faces the first task of his first day on the job: knocking on the door of Apartment 8E.
Aphrodite Son, Ares Daughter
It's the twenty-first century and the goddess Aphrodite has a son and god Ares has a daughter, both navigating the world in their early twenties. It almost seems like the Fates are up to their little tricks again...
The Beggar of Fell
A lonesome beggar stumbles around the city of Fellhelltrell, searching for food, shelter, and drink. A tavern seems warm, inviting, and welcoming. Seems.
No Harm to Anyone
Alden and Rickie were once happily in love with one another. But it is alarming what an envelope can do to a marriage. Told in three parts, in reverse chronology, Alden gives in to his desires, one season at a time.
BODYPART ANIMAL
A tiny, miniscule, really, piece about a young man who has some animals living inside his body, causing him pain. [Partially based on a true story.]
Missing Poster for a Closet Safe
Hale lives in an ordinary apartment building, friendly-enough with his neighbours. Mr. Fleisher's closet safe seems to have vanished. Sense is not so understandable a word. There is a mystery afoot. [26 pages]
I used to care about you, January
A sort of poetry. Twelve relationships, queer relationships between two men, described in fleeting details. One for each month of the year.
The First Part of Something Secondary
A couple have an argument at a Chinese restaurant.
Pregnant Seahorse
Three friends - Gregory, Forest, and Billy - come with their own idiosyncrasies. Gregory thinks of death, Forest has a "skin condition", and Billy...well, he doesn't know how to hold everything together between them.
Backpack Backpack
A reclusive loner welcomes a pair of backpackers into his home when they return to Australia after having lived for a decade out of the country.
Twenty Doors
That's A Lot of Doors
Listen to twenty people give you an entrance-view of their lives. You are not expected to stay for supper. [21 pages]
I Am Above Sea Level
Four people attempt to navigate their feelings and their place in the world. Four aliens try to adjust to a dying planet. [24 pages]
Same Moon
O. Sylvis is walking home when something diverts his attention. Suddenly, he is more determined than ever to climb the old, leafless tree...
Whiteware
Spending the weekend with his partner and his partner's family for a birthday celebration, he becomes intrigued with the mysteries of a small building on the property...
It's a Prehistoric Ritual
Featuring characters first introduced in Death in the Family, Eddie, Pete, and Maggie are invited to the wedding of an old friend from their childhood, not that they really seem to care much for it being 'her day'.... [23 pages]
You're Shadowing Someone on Vacation
James, Clark, Haley and Beck are away in some coastal town in a tiny little holiday rental for a long weekend, but you've got a front-row seat to a flaky friend and an intimate relationship that begins with a kiss... [25 pages]
Eliza Held Up the Button
Eliza discovers a button discarded on the floor of the study. And then a t-shirt in the wastebin. This feeling in her chest is strange, and yet...
Fiva: An Erasure Poem
Every story has a beginning. Many a vampire is born out of the scorns of their past, and for Fiva of Alestrei, the path she walked to become a fabled bloodsucker begins right here... [23 pages]
Death in the Family
After the death of their mother, three siblings sort through their childhood home, dumping the past not only in the garbage, but out from their scarred memories.
Belly Grumbling
When the town drunk and a broomgirl discover the corpse of a sea monster washed ashore in their small seaside town, they must decide what to do with it - keep it a mystery from the townsfolk, or reveal secrets once thought to be mere tales of the sea. [20 pages]
That View of Blue, Blue, Blue
Leva and Tisbe live at the base of a hill, in a cabin their family has lived in for centuries. Leva meditates with the wind, Tisbe collects the clouds in glass jars - and a stranger needs their attention or else his life may be lost. [18 pages]
Somebody is Warning Me, You'll Change Your Mind
Written in the isolation times of 2020, a young man faces the strange inner reflections of his five years living alone in the middle of nowhere - and decides whether now is the time to return to civilisation. [17 pages]
Wanderers
After the death of his mother, Greg searches in his childhood home for a new beginning, until a drunken Ian needs a place to crash for the night.
Girls in Delicate Daydreams
Violet has never fallen in love before. When she meets dark-haired Kian, she falls head over heels. But she has always been clueless. [19 pages]
Habits: A Girls in Delicate Daydreams Side Story
Kian potters through life trying to find his purpose. [9 pages]
Pears
Three sisters must keep a careful eye on their father, worried he'll repeat the darkness of his past. [16 pages]
Bells and Whistles
A break-up has a harsh impact upon hopeless-at-love Matt. People seem just as chaotic in love in 2027.
[Trigger warning: overemotional sap.]
Pancakes or Coffee
An adopted teenager searches for his birth mother - and believes he's found her in the woman eating pancakes at his regular diner. [3 pages]
Skuren
In a dystopian near-future, a man waits out the return of his lover in a room in their makeshift home - an IKEA model kitchen. [3 pages]