Short Story

The Love Leg My darling Capi, How can I give voice to these phantasms that haunt my soul? I see how hard you try, yet your strength is so brittle, no longer your own. Never your own, if I’m being honest, but is that what I want to be? Is that what’s needed? Required. Your… Read more

The Painting Today’s Fictionwocky challenge was to describe a painting. Judith: Wow, glad I sharpened this thing yesterday. It’s cutting right through this bastard. Abra: Hold still, fucker. Wait, this is making a huge mess! How do you get bloodstains out of bedding again? Holofernes: Huh. This is not how I saw things going. Instructions… Read more

The Recipe I’m riffing on RM Greta’s take and connecting this leg to the previous one 🙂 Adventurer Goulash Ingredients Preparation Step 1: Relish in the demise of the adventurers. Fear adds zing to the flesh, and cracking some bones will help you get at that rich marrow. However, don’t sacrifice efficiency.  Step 2: Remove… Read more

The Play Well, I’m behind by a day, so I’ll drop 2 of these today (just not at the same time). Leg 4’s challenge was to write a play using mostly dialogue tags. We’ll Eat Well Tonight [Interior, central room in a dungeon labyrinth. Torches flicker dully along the walls beside gaudy purple and gold… Read more

The Endless Leg It’s day 3 of Mac Sitko’s Fictionwocky challenge! In case you’re wondering, I’ll publish these as individual posts for now, then collect them in a weekly roundup and remove the one-offs. Fallen He wondered where he’d gone wrong, but in his heart he knew, because it was there that the trolls had… Read more

Microfiction as Definition By Fritz Schwimbeck (1889–1972) – http://1910-again.tumblr.com/post/57574281095/fritz-schwimbeck-my-dream-my-bad-dream-1915, Public Domain Here’s day/leg 2 of Mac Sitko’s Fictionwocky challenge! Night Demon: (noun) night demon; sleep paralysis demon; Pisadeira (She-Who-Steps): A suffocating weight pressing you down as you wake, groggy from sleep. Often seen as a crone (She-Who-Steps) that squats on your chest, matted hair twined… Read more

So, I’ve decided to take part in Mac Sitko’s collaborative project for May – Fictionwocky: A Beast of Thirty-One Legs. You can find the prompts for days 1 through 7 here, as well as the rules if you want to contribute. My contribution for Day/Leg 1: Final Version: It seems none can live but profiteers… Read more