Tag: Fiction

  • Read more: How it Begins

    This is the first chapter of my novella, The Homunculus Heroes. It is available at amazon.com. Just follow the link at the bottom of the page.  It was inevitable. The entire town knew it was just a matter of time…

    How it Begins
  • Read more: Simon and the Balcony

    It’s time for Fandango’s weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (his time), He is going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to…

    Simon and the Balcony
  • Read more: Fandango’s Flashback Friday | 1/10/2025

    It’s time for FFF again! Per Fandango: Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term subscribers of posts that they might not remember?…

    Fandango’s Flashback Friday | 1/10/2025
  • Read more: Room For Rent

    Last month’s editorial page lay rumpled on my floor. Its letters graying and damp-wrinkled, edges curling upward. Broken shells that once held sunflower seeds piled in one corner and a plastic mirror with a silenced bell in the other. How…

    Room For Rent
  • Read more: Twisted Fate

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This piece was originally posted for Photo Challenge Day over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie! During the bus ride home, Sonya savored the days’ events in her mind’s eye. She still couldn’t believe it actually happened. And…

    Twisted Fate
  • Read more: Art Appreciation

    Tamara de Lempicka self portrait

    Art Appreciation
  • Read more: Dunya, Dunya

    It’s time for Cyranny’s Word of the Day Challenge. Today, our prompt is “disposal.” Forgetting what had happened last time, Dunya stuck her hand in the garbage disposal while it was running. “Why, Dunya? Why do you do these things?…

    Dunya, Dunya