Fractal
" **Fractal"** An electric silence filled the bright silvery dome. Seventy scientists had come to witness the making of history. They stood along the upper balcony, still and quiet as the machinery surrounding them. No sounds were heard but the...
Put Me in the Trash
There were a few nice new products on sale at Klyder's Department Store that quarter, but the lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise was not one of them. Clyde Igglesby wanted to retch at the label of the dense, bowl-shaped, cheap-plastic...
A Lay in the Park
A Lay in the Park Nicholas stood on the top most tier of the playscape pretending to captain his ship as several of his friends ran about him miming the hoisting of sails. The park about him was a sea, and the peoples drifting through on their phones,...
A Quiet Evening with Sorin and Bryan
Reclining precariously in his low slung camp chair, the two back legs digging into the denuded soil, Sorin looked out across the clearing and over the trees around his remote cabin, deep in the wooded foot hills of the brisk, Appalachian mountains. At...
Dana's Elusive Trick
A young zorua moved through the lamplit street with her equally young trainer. The faux zubat wings tied to her back felt awkward, flimsy. She constantly shifted the strap around her belly to keep them from drooping. As for her trainer, she was dressed...
The Madness of Mrs. Frank
Upon the floor I labored, sweat dripping from my brow. Several times I retraced work already done, damaged by the saline drops. The chalk in my paw was gritty and made the black sleeve that went to my elbow white half up my forearm. At least it matched...
The Hive is Me
Did you know, I used to be a cat? No, really! Well, at least I thought I was a cat. I definitely looked like one. Brown-beige with stripes and cute little green eyes. And... I was allergic to bees, would you believe that? Hah, no, but that's what...
Sometimes failure offers the best prize
Teth?ula breathed deeply and clenched his hands into fists. His heart was beating a mile a minute and his body was shaking, his eyes clenched shut. Around him, all was silent. He was alone in a wooden hut, told to get himself ready. He had to calm...
Costume Antics
Shel wobbled in place, feeling hot and stuffy. The chubby Irish setter's fur was getting heavy with sweat. "Andy," he groaned, "can we pull apart a sec? It's hard to breathe in this...
Learning to Love the Void
Learning to love the void By ironsnake345 Submission for a weekly writing prompt by Writer's Crossing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --\> Lol yeah, things have been going pretty great since I moved in....
Curiosity
When you peer into the abyss, sometimes the abyss gazes back-Nietzsche Every state institution that's more than a couple years old has skeletons in the closet. Doors best left unopened. Topics avoided by mutual agreement. No exceptions. Ours was...
A Way Out
The walls were dirty, and it smelled of puke. The walls were always dirty. Even though the grumpy dog who was cleaning the floors came through every day. He always came during the afternoon nap time. He wiped the linoleum with smelly chlorine bleach,...