Friday-fictionettes Stories

When winning is everyone's responsibility, losing could be anyone's fault. Who let the team down this time?

"Alas, alas, if your old art teacher knew..."

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

Things have a tendency fall apart, no matter how tightly you tie them together.

It was obvious to Coach Curtis what the rutabagas were doing the moment he stumbled into their field.

Sure. An optical illusion. You just keep telling yourself that--while you can.

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...

I sell youth. All I ask in return is... access.

You might as well use a reputation like that to your advantage.

Because you would be missed. Because everyone deserves second chances. Because death is a tragedy and life is a triumph. Because.

No one goes inside. No one even goes near. No one really knows why.

Tasha dreamt it up in the first place, so of course Tasha had to save them all from it in the end. That's how dreams usually go.

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

You may think there are only two kinds of dolls in the world, dear reader: the kinds you like to play with and the kinds you don't. You may think that. You may be wrong.

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...

You made your traveling companion; now you have to share a seat with it.

Slip-and-fall hazards do not begin to describe the liability issues this brewpub has to negotiate.

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

I can grant you the knowledge you seek, but first be very sure you want it.

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