“It will be room 108, over there on your left.” The hotel concierge gestured to the hallway behind the two men. Hal and Bruce gathered their bags and walked across the lobby to their room. They arrived at room 108, unlocked the door with their key card, and dropped their bags on the floor once […]
Flash Fiction
Harvest Night
The tornado sirens began just as Amanda started up her pickup truck in the dark of the night and sped off the property, spraying gravel back at her fiancé’s house. She saw Brent through the rearview mirror as he charged out to the porch and put his hands on his hips, an anguished look on […]
A Genie for the Foolish
The genie said, “I will grant you three wishes.”
The man thought for a moment and said, “For my first wish, I wish I had a thousand wishes.”
The Frog Next Door
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Frog-King, or Iron Henry from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jan Caldwell was a divorced single mom with three handsome sons. But the youngest of her sons, Ash, was especially striking. Whenever his grandfather came to visit the grandsons, he would often tell the youngest that the sun was astonished whenever […]
The Headstrong Child
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Wilful Child from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Once upon a time there was a child who was headstrong, and would not listen to his dad. For this reason, he had bad karma and got very sick. No doctor could help him, and he soon died. When they put him in […]