Independence Day

"There were definitely some fireworks that night..."

Friday, July 4th, 1997“Independence Day,” Heather corrected her mother testily. “What’s that, dear?” Mrs. Meinders asked distractedly. “The holiday is called Independence Day, not the Fourth of July,” Heather repeated.  She breathed out a sigh of exasperation. She had argued this point...

A Chance Encounter.

"A trip well worth taking."

My name is Paul. I'm a thirty-four-year-old man from Massachusetts. I work for a company that manufactures, installs and tests industrial braking systems, couplings and bearings. My job requires extensive travel around the country, approximately two hundred days a year. I...

Ruins

"Truth be told she didn’t want to be here for the emotional fall out of Melanie’s relationship."

It was a uni kid’s life, getting fucked up at three o’clock in the afternoon on the roof of the girl she liked. Melanie had led Raven up there when she got there, barely done complaining about the stairs before...

What’s Eating Chelsea Lake?

"Touched by something from another world, are the creature’s visits benevolent or self-serving?"

It came for me in the night again, during the theta states; those moments I'm neither asleep nor lucid. That alone begged all manner of questions; primarily that it couldn't be a dream.Dreaming only occurs in much later sleep stages,...

The woman in Seat 11A

"We met on a red-eye flight."

She occupied Seat 11A on the long, red-eye flight from San Diego to Pittsburgh, while I was in 11C and the seat between us was vacant. Twenty-five years later she still occupies my mind from time to time.The last words...