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...

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

Travel by train to delightful Moon Island! You'll never want to leave. Some visitors never have.

Appearances can be deceiving. Appearances are *designed* to be deceiving.

It would be nice to give someone good news for once. But apparently it's only urgent to warn people about *bad* futures.

Traditions, like organisms, evolve. (Friday Fictionette for February 16, 2018. Also the Fictionette Freebie for the month!)

The investor is no angel, but his assistant is no demon.

It's not a game anymore.

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

Haven't we already covered that whole "be careful what you wish for" thing? All right, then.

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

This probably isn't allowed on company time. But then, so many things aren't.

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

This was not how origami was supposed to behave.

"...the last few steps you'll have to take alone." (Shel Silverstein, "This Bridge")

Not your usual hostile takeover. (A bonus fictionette which continues where "...BRIGHT SMILES!" left off.)

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...

The Oracle predicts that you will not like what you hear, and may do something foolish because of it.

Adventures start when you're busy being stupid. And if it wasn't for Harry, I probably wouldn't have been so stupid.