Friday-fictionettes Stories

I feel the urge to write, to spill all of my blood over papers, building the empire of my sad madness from the flesh of my heart and the unfinished breaths of my soul. I...

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

They'd have to be very good reasons. Wizards aren't generally afraid of anything... right?

No one believes actual tiny sentient demons are infiltrating the post and editing letters for brutal honesty. It's just natural processes at work.

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...

It was time for them to move on, and they decided to make something of it.

There is no business as usual when the early stages of new building construction unearths a violation of physics and causality. (Now the Fictionette Freebie for July 201...

"This is a good lesson to people who cannot see the good luck of others, without coveting it for themselves." A. B. Mitford, Tales of Old Japan, vol. 1

Again she saw thick stone walls in her mind's eye. Her mind's ear reported trumpets, a royal fanfare.

It's all down to the fine print. Isn't it always?

There's no planning it. It happens when it happens. And Murphy's Law says it'll happen at the most inconvenient time possible.

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

When you've been living in the shadow of two years ago yesterday, falling into future days' shadows is easier to do.

Is it worth dying to keep it? Is it worth living without it?

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

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

It's easy to laugh. It's the first thing you learn. But you're old enough now to learn warnings.

Big events can spring from the smallest of incidences.

She realized that her dream had been a foretelling, her first since arriving here.

He had the power and the wealth to command any pleasure, and the result was that all life's pleasures had begun to pall.