"A skald must pay her debts to a man. She gives him an experience neither will ever forget."
It was dark by the time I got to the farm, the gravel crunching under my tyres. I wondered how I would have found this place if I did not have the GPS location in the Sat Nav. Across a...
"In the quest for success, can one go too far?"
She paced up and down enough that her silhouette was visible from outside her office. Nerves wracked her being as the moment of fulfilment was near.The promise.Yes, the promise she made to her subordinates a month prior. Sub-par performances for...
"Wish-fulfilling perversion of the neighbors."
My cigarette dangled as I poured another glass of whiskey (vodka? gin?). I watched Tony and Cassy from the window above my sink of unwashed dishes, kissing by their new mini-van; all smiley and bouncy. They weren’t as virtuous as...
""We need to learn to love ourseves first..." John Lennon"
It was a cabin in the Ozarks where two friends lived and shared their solitary lives. Mariah had a fairly new relationship with Lorraine. The ladies had met at a local fair where both were selling objects they had made of...
"A young professor is troubled by vivid dreams of his favorite student."
It’s not even true winter yet, and my studio apartment is hopelessly chilly as if the street lamp outside the paper-thin window is the source of all the world’s cold. Researching my graduate thesis in Magical Realism, reading the lush...
It happens to everyone. That moment you glance across the crowded room, and suddenly your pupils lock with a sinful pair of azure eyes. The stranger's razor cheekbones highlight the devilish grin sliding into place. He holds a whisky glass...
"Will you answer the siren's call?"
He sat in the front of his ship, fiddling with the teal flower between his fingers, rubbing the petals as the movements of the sea rocked him from side to side. He felt the salty air burn his nostrils as...
"He promised to pull out, but he didn’t, and so they fell."
The orange sun was dipping behind the distant hills, its remaining light shimmering across the still pond. Yesh and Shalay knelt in the soft grass at the edge of the woods, facing the water. Yesh pushed her round, muscular haunches...
"Her place is haunted... by a self-conscious spirit."
“Fuck, I should have known better,” Ella muttered under her breath, reaching for the bag of breakfast cereals, “than to—Argh!—let a ghost have his way with me.” She slammed the door of the cupboard with determined frustration. “And a desperate...
