The Fog

A word of warning. I'll be posting horror all week. Reader discretion is advised. If you're still here, welcome to Halloween Week! Skulking along the rooftops came a dense fog, moving with the elegance of a sleek jungle cat. The motion appeared conscious, as it swamped the town in a tightening ring.It billowed toward me …

Four

  "I had the strangest dream. I swam in an open green sea for what felt like hours, before four mermaids with coral red hair found me.  Four leagues they carried me to a sandy atoll, where I was trapped for four days and nights. On the fourth night, lush green waves crashed upon my …

Five Word Story: Scene from a Bar

Five Word Story: Scene from a Bar: "Bad day?" "Leave the bottle."

Age Old Warnings

My friends all said, try it, it's amazing, you won't regret it.  I've done nothing but, since I bought the stuff.  It's not like it was false advertising, and the side effects were clearly marked.  But those are there because some idiot in the past thought, "I wonder if this tastes as good as it …

The Great Reveal

  The scaffolding had cloaked the great Kaaba for more than a year.  A simple restoration was long overdue, but delays in the schedule had gone on much longer than expected. People had begun to speculate, was this more than a simple restoration, could this be an improvement, some form of redesign? Nothing of that …