Original Fiction

You’d think the cattle might be uneasy around a possessed cowhand. I was worried about that when I first picked up a white spur out of the mud, white in…

“What do you mean, it’s got my soul in it?” The doctor – whose credentials she should have been a lot more careful about examining, would have been, if she…

She spent more time in her house, lately, than in her body. Snugging the cable in behind her ear, the familiar click, then laying herself out on the couch and…

I noticed the first bee crawling out from between my ribs two months ago. It balanced for a few breathless seconds on the titanium strut, cleaning its wings, then launched…

It was always strange to have him in pieces there beside her. Warped bolts buckling deep in charred plates, limbs laid out neatly separate from torso, but still with the…

What a relief it was to lie in bed and hear scratching outside her windows. It had been so silent before. What a relief to hear it coming closer. That…

Nothing but white lilies, as far as the eye can see. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be a foolproof weapon, seeds scattered on the…

Manual control cut out just as I lost the last of the light from the surface. Darkness outside, darkness across the cockpit, in the same catastrophic blink. I thought at…

She drove as far as she could into the country with the radio and moon both buzzing in her head. When had there gotten to be so many lights? More…

Mitch had expected toasting the bastard’s death to go down sweeter. After all, he’d been waiting twenty years to do it. But maybe that was the problem. Wait that long…