This is a story told in a series of four letters. The first is here February 13, 19– Dear Baron, I am so cautious I make a very...

I thought my short stories might come together more easily if I had a theme, so I’m exploring silence. Last month was the silence of not...

This was supposed to be a melancholy, sweet story set shortly after WWII. I had grand plans of people wiping tears from their eyes at the...

Justin is the main character in the novel I’m working on. This story comes from me trying to follow him around and figure out the kinds...

The silence was the silence after everything has been said, and nothing has changed. They leaned on the fence together, a cold foot of...

I just wanted to use fiction to record some of my son’s antics. And then one thing led to another and suddenly I’m referencing a Greek...

In the days before the greening of the world, when everything was covered in ice and snow, Harrod Frostbringer rode his white dragon in...

Aurea was raised by a dragon, so when the bird left, her first impulse was to burn everything to the ground. It was supposed to be a...

This has been difficult to compress. At one point it was four pages, single spaced–have no fear, I did trim it down to a reasonable size....

She was the only one who knew he’d left the dragon alive. And every time she ran with his other children to be swept into a big bear hug,...

Once she was in, she couldn’t get out, and she was afraid that at any moment someone would notice the gun in the pocket of her coat. She...

I wrote this story ages ago, but couldn’t find it when I went to dig it up the other day, so I just rewrote it. Merry Christmas! At...

Dr. Karen Stone slammed her palm down on the table. “Not fast enough!” She hissed, and stalked out of the trailer door, slamming it...

Every mother has days like this: she has twenty-seven hours worth of chores to fit into a twenty-four hour period. So she leaps out of...

The spandex showed some frayed spots where the elastic was going out of it, and the green “S” emblazoned on his chest had lost a few...