Friday-fictionettes Stories

Serpents come in many guises, bearing every kind of fruit. But none of them bother to lie. Why should they, when the truth is weapon enough?

It wasn't a safe place to work under the best of circumstances. These weren't the best of circumstances.

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

A Collection of short stories which are composed such that each one will surely spark a life within you and because it all have come from daily life basis so one will...

They make terrible pets, even the domesticated ones. They can't be housebroken, and they have a distressing tendency to start fires. (Friday Fictionette for March 2, 201...

I guess we can't call him Lazy Lou no more, 'cause he finally done stopped bein' lazy.

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.

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

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

Your condition has become impossible to ignore. You wish the same could be said for yourself.

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

It's amazing how one small change can broaden your perspective.

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

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 electric kettle is drunk again.

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

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.

Regrettable dudes. You can only go so long as a woman in this world without encountering one. What's so sad is how preventable they are...

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

Things that have been buried should buried remain.