First Contact

In this flash fiction story, an alien tourist is trying to buy a cup of sugar from a science fiction fan.

atlas. (completed)

we met when we were 16. at 42, i still miss you.

Old Man

Remember science class and looking at a piece of onion skin under the microscope? It's still onion skin, but it appears completely different when you look it in a different light. People can be like that too. A little boy finds out that his relationship with his grandfather is not exactly what he had thought.