The following short story contains vivid descriptions of violence, gore, and unethical actions taken in the name of science. Its intensity and subject matter may …
Alisya
Devil in the Door Knobs: A Personal Encounter Of Everyday Items, Curses, and Religion
An Introduction There is often the illusion that the rigidity of science is adamant in disproving the more eerie and whimsical nature of the supernatural. …
The Cuckoo’s Brood
1. Prelude The ducks on Orion’s pond learnt to wear feathers aplomb that were stained black and white, their emerald heads bobbing high against the …
Fata Morgana
The ocean has always loved fiercely, violently, and without reserve. This was the truth Orell Aldwin first learnt, long before his hands folded with age …
Mosley Road
When someone’s life was baptised from the start in loss and bruises of lessons hard-learnt, it was difficult to imagine a reality otherwise. He knew …
The Gambler’s Dice (Perception Check)
I can see you following me. Yeah, you. With the slanted cap and the dark flapping coat and the Metallica t-shirt. I’ve known since Ashdown …
Pixels & Fajitas: A Tale of Growing Up on the Internet and Chili’s
When I was young, young enough for the Internet to have solidified itself into something worth taking up space in our lives and before its …
The Kármán Line
There is an old farmhouse that exists solely on the burnt photograph edges of childhood memory. The sort where it tastes almost like a dream …
Shadow Play
The art of a storyteller has always been performance. The curtains draw, the stage rises – a floating sea of burnished wood and plank above …
King of Hearts
Saturday was the rumour of a thunderstorm. The radio garbled as the interference grew even worse, until the words of the newscaster became barely decipherable. …