Tag: short story
I Watched Myself Walking to Church
Along the red brick road, my boots made light, dull sounds: thump-thump, slowly, carefully, light as a feather with no weight to carry itself against the wind. Then the sound double and I looked back to a girl in a maroon coat. She had a black sling bag on her left should which moved forwards…
Metropolitan Apparition
A pair of bluish translucent glass carefully moves sideways towards opposite ends to uncover a dilly-dallying of unknowns. A car stops abruptly in front and a rushing lady with a phone to her ear takes several steps forward. She crosses to an island right smack in the middle of the bustling cityscape that doesn’t quite…
Wheel of Fortune
He knew it was too good to be true when everything was going perfectly. Then it wasn’t: the tower collapsed with him in the midst of it. And it all made sense. For several weeks, he would either sit amongst the debris or somewhere near the broken pieces of concrete where he could glimpse both…