Fictionette Stories

Envy is where all the trouble starts.

Please, she prayed, let this not be the one that gets noticed. Just give me a little more time....

Friday Fictionette for March 16, 2018. "Everybody knew that if she could cure you with one broth, she could kill you with another." Now the Fictionette Freebie...

The things they'll get up to while your back is turned...

She figured she had one last work of art in her. If she died trying to find it, she figured that would be OK.

There is no cure. There is only inoculation.

If God had wanted humanity to fly, some religions might look very different.

If you gaze long enough into an abyss, you had better be prepared to run.

They just demand to be told. They don't ask for my approval. They don't thank me, either.

First they came for my dentist's office, and I said nothing, because I had no idea what the hell was going on...

No one gets to choose how they feel--but it seems unfair that someone else should get to choose how I'm going to feel.

Hey, wanna see something cool?

The Fictionette Freebie for February, 2019. "The corporation intended them to learn as they went. They shouldn't have been surprised."

It's been years, but I've still got it safe right here.

Magda led young Domden to face the last statue, the most important, the one that all children graduating into adulthood must name for themselves without benefit of prior...

"Two Goddesses walk into a bar...." It sounds like a joke, but the bartender isn't laughing.

Granted, if characters started acting reasonably, fairy tales would be a whole lot shorter.

"It will help the whole Kingdom," averred the King. "But first I must see its efficacy demonstrated."

The kettle is screaming. The world's the wrong shape. Something's here that shouldn't be there at all.

They don't do anything in secret. They count on us to let them get away with it. They know we don't have any choice.