For space opera characters, conflict begins at the spaceport. Are you a character in a space opera story? Are you headed for the spaceport? Get ready for an awful time. Before you can put down that robot uprising, first you have to deal with the stress of getting there. Here are some of the challenges you might face on the […]
(It’s not about what you think.) Dave peeled off his clothes and climbed into the mall fountain. Next to his nest of pillows in the mattress store, it was his favorite place in the whole mall. The sun streaming through the skylights kept the water at a comfortable temperature, and his rubber duck was floating nearby to keep him company.
You’ve never heard a bad neighbor story like this A lot of people have a bad neighbor story. They might throw noisy parties, or steal your parking space, or use a leaf blower all afternoon while you’re trying to sleep off a hangover. But few neighbors are as awful as “Betty,” the woman who accused my dad of assassinating her
It is a gray Monday morning, and you are a tech writer. You mostly keep to yourself, hunched over your keyboard like a nearsighted, sweaty gargoyle. Your coworkers all seem to think they’re smarter than you, just because you only have a bachelor’s degree in English Lit and they’re all engineers with a Scrabble tray’s worth of letters after their
Urban Fantasy Flash Fiction Heather walked across town, a large tote bag stuffed with smaller tote bags over her shoulder. When she got to the Fourth Street Bridge, she was startled to see a stone troll standing in her way. Stone trolls were nearly invincible. To make matters worse, this one was huge, big enough to eat her in a
