A flash fiction They looked like an average Mom and kids out for lunch at the diner. Haggard Mom, exhausted from the rigors of parenting a young teen and a toddler; toddler boy, in constant motion, hands a blur grabbing and dropping — squirming just out of the Mom’s reach…

The listing said “Halfway House Manager, salary and room with private bath”. Eleanor hoped that her interview would pan out, she really needed a home as well as a job at this point in her life and in a new city. …

Still in flash fiction mode, and this ghost just sort of hangs around waiting for me to write more about her, so here goes. Enjoy. You may be wondering why I seem to be stuck with my second cousin JC, and why I didn’t just go to the light or…

This is a flash fiction I wrote after having a weird dream. I blame it on the jalapenos. :-) My second cousin JC is a real pain in the backside. He’s a swaggering, beer guzzling, snuff chewing jerk whose real name is Earl or LeRoy or Duke — who can…

This is a flash fiction, speculative/mild horror I wrote earlier this year for a Blog Challenge. ~ Natalia “More coffee?” I looked up from my appointment book, smiled and nodded. She was birdlike, thin and frail looking — maybe in her late 30’s but then, I am a poor judge…

This was originally written as a Flash Fiction for a now defunct content platform. It is a speculative horror fiction. Enjoy! Greg, Juliet and Manoj wrote code for a discreet company of unknown origin. All they knew was that the pay was stellar and the resources amazing…

I wrote this Flash Fiction/Weird Fiction for a submission call that I saw, asking for a piece featuring a villain. I like to think that most villains are not easy to spot, and so I wrote a piece with a perky supernatural “villain” — who exists by stealing time from…

I saw this animation yesterday, of Salvadore Dali and Disney’s collaboration, mixed with Pink Floyd, and it got me thinking. Some of my best writing, (in my humble opinion), has been when I’ve looked at things from a completely different genre perspective. When I challenge my own definitions of…

One of the greatest challenges we have as a planet, is to divest ourselves of our dependence on oil. And it is naive to think that we can simply stop drilling and transfer our energy needs to solar and wind, and other alternative sources of energy — because oil is…