Ode to the Pachyderm: The rhythm of your mind and tread of carbon footprint / Resound more fittingly than ours… Read more CARELESS NATURE VERSE or something like …
Category: Fiction
ZANE’S VERSION OF HAMLET
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HORATIO: Copyright and art by Cecily Winter Dec. 2019 “Anything is possible,” Hamlet used to say as… Read more ZANE’S VERSION OF HAMLET
A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
A 150 word crime-flash using 10 prompts from the titles of Anne Cleeves’ novels. CORPSE WITH GANNETS by Susan B.… Read more A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
Collected shorts poetic, dark, eerie, and amazing. See them (with one of mine) at VSS365 Anthology Volume One available on… Read more A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
A whimsical and highly anachronistic re-telling of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the little house that saved them from the stew… Read more A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
A schoolgirl’s determination to remain in her native Manhattan, whatever the cost, sends her down some dark alleys in life’s… Read more THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
TWEETS: BIGGISH SCORES
No need for sculling across her home sky, a god floats on her back. Perfectly white with no threat of… Read more TWEETS: BIGGISH SCORES
THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
In the Journal of Speculative Fiction, Kyanite Press (Issue 5/Vol. 1/May-June 2019) pages 64-75. In a world of universal surveillance,… Read more THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
CHEVROLET/FATHER ISSUES
She came out of the rest room, looking like her usual sprayed-in-place self. She’d been inside over 30 minutes, ice-packing… Read more CHEVROLET/FATHER ISSUES