Tag: short story
Charlie And The Bear
**********TRIGGER WARNING********** This story is fiction from the author’s mind but themes contained within are child abuse (physical and verbal). If such theme may be upsetting, please read with caution. ******************** “Hi Charlie.” “Hiya,” echoed back. He looked up with soft eyes, bringing the small bear he held in his hands closer to his body. “Have you seen ...The Finding: Part One
“You found it on the beach? You know, when most people take a walk on the beach, they pick up seashells.” “True, but does anything I do ever make sense anymore?” “Ha. Well, that’s what I love the most about you, Babe.” The sunrise welcomed me with its friendly warmth as I headed back from ...A Story Told In Dice
Our story begins on a Tuesday in the cafeteria of minimum wage jobs. None of us wanted to be there; then again, who wants to work a job that only allowed a bare minimum of living? We were just three strange faces who barely knew each other. Our shifts were different, so we were passing ...The Necklace: Part Six
“Pathetic.” Kierra glared at her own reflection in the bathroom once she dried her face with a hand towel. The rocking and nausea have settled, but she could still taste the bitterness of her regrets. She allowed her mind to drift as she brushed her teeth. Kierra giggled as Marco pulled her back into bed ...The Necklace: Part Five
Tilly, Nora’s cinnamon-colored bobtailed cat, abruptly woke Nora up by tipping her half-empty wineglass off the coffee table. “Damn cat,” Nora fussed as she got up from her recliner. She checked her cellphone before she cleaned up the mess. She groaned when she saw she had no new notifications. “Why did she have to fucking ...The Necklace: Part Four
“I won’t let your power destroy the innocence of another Bryne woman,” Alayne’s eighteen-year-old granddaughter Nora snarled as she held up the necklace before locking it away in a dark brown wooden jewelry box under the floorboards by her dresser. Twenty-five years passed before the necklace crossed Nora’s mind again. She caught her husband cheating ...The Thinnest Edge
Both of them stand at a precipice. Neither of them dares to speak for fear of saying the wrong thing- or perhaps the right thing. He stands with arms outstretched, magic crackling up and down their tanned skin. At his fingertips, the magic is lightning. She doesn’t move because if she does, he’ll react. Instead, ...Crowdsourced Magic
At home, life is messy and covered in broken amber-colored glass bottles. Here the noise drowns out the screaming in him; there’s a test tomorrow, and he should be in bed. Here, Andrew could ignore how terrible his home life is and move with the crowd. He could bend and twist and shout and clap ...The Necklace: Part Three
“I can’t believe you gave it to her,” Stanley fussed over the phone. “It’ll ruin her, Ma!” “It won’t. Yes, it will change her and she might struggle a bit,” Alayne replied, “but it will strengthen her.” “How do you know for sure?” “I just hold on… I hold on to what I believe is ...The Necklace: Part Two
Kierra never felt so conflicted in her life. “Maybe it is a just coincidence. Emails can be scheduled,” she thought as she held up the necklace. “There is no way it actually worked.” She put it down and reread the email again. TO: Kierra.Bryne@gmail.com FROM: cgreen@greenandassociates.com SUBJECT: Re: Submission DATE: 04-15-2020 Ms. Bryne,Thanks for your ...
