He still had the patrol car parked outside of the insurance agent's office at night on his mind. He should bring in all the officers, of the squad on duty at the times of the complaints. He had a feeling that since it was a morals issue that would never happen. He could get a general warning about girlfriends and sex on the job issued, but he wanted to targ...
When modern lycanthropy was discovered, my Daddy and I were on the cutting edge of research. We were the first scientists to suggest and implement new methods of discovery, taking risks and chances other scientists wouldn't - and discovering things about the disease no one else could. Within months we already had a temporary cure for testing. It wouldn't rev...
Not Tonight Dear, I Have Writer’s Block Bob Locke was a writer, or so he told himself. In his spare time he taught English to a bunch of kids who weren’t in the least bit offended by double negatives, dropping ‘g’s, or splitting their infinitives. He couldn’t believe the kids he was teaching were going to be running his planet in a few years. He lay in bed...
A sleepless night. An endless shift. Then another. Finally, after three days he was there. Sitting in his usual corner, writing in a notebook, now and again looking up at her. The same as every other time, only now it was different. Now she knew. What he was writing, and what he was thinking about as he sat there, glancing at her with those unfathomable blu...
Preface: There is a certain way this is written. If a line is 'Thomas: "Hello!"' that is Thomas saying hello. If a line is "Hello!" with no name behind it, that is Thomas' thoughts. Now on to the actual story: Thomas Michaels entered a local coffee shop, something he would usually do every morning before work. He approached the counter to...
Celine liked to walk through the park on her way home from school. She lived near the park, and when the weather was good she asked the bus driver to drop her off before her stop so that she could stroll home. Then, she would make her way to her favorite bench near the playground and sit for a while, watching the people go by, or maybe getting an early start...
The first thing I noticed about her was her red high-heeled shoes as she crossed the hotel lobby toward me. I admired her audacity, her sense of rebelliousness against the dictates of fashion. She walked with an almost impossible cat-like grace in the shoes, the heels like slivers. I watched, mesmerized. She extended a hand to me in greeting and I grasped i...
"Now the essay needs to be at least five pages long," Prof. Kidd said. "Not four pages and a sentence on the fifth page, I mean five whole pages. Understand?" The classroom filled with disgruntled "yeahs" and "whatevers" and "oh fucks." From my seat, second row from the right second seat from the front, I watched Prof. Kidd glance at his wristwatch then he s...
Cindy finished drawing the final line and put the chalk away in her pocket. On the floor beneath her was a pentagram surrounded by concentric circles with Sumerian runes surrounding each circle. She had learned how to make this from a book she'd found right at the back of the college library. Cindy had been hiding back there trying to get her chemistry paper...
I don't really remember the trip to the hospital. I got all of that later. I woke up coughing, it got worse, finally I was coughing up blood. Usually this means the end in situations like mine, I have been ready for it for months, to be honest. Oxygen from somewhere, flat on my back plane ride to Boston, nurses everywhere. I think sometimes it is a disadva...