Fiction Friday: I’ll Be Home For Christmas

A small girl woke up in the middle of the night on Christmas day. She carefully crawled over her siblings- the nine year old twins, the tiny two year old brother- on their respective beanbags in their playroom. She tiptoed down the flights of stairs until she was mostly hidden behind the woodwork banisters of […]

Fiction Friday: Mirror, Mirror

Mirror Mirror Word Count: 599 CW: Mild violence Related works: N/A She damn near twisted her ankle walking up the wooden steps in high heels after a full bottle of wine (and carrying a few more bottles of not-wine), but she felt it was worth it when he opened the door. “Oh. Hey.” He […]

Fiction Friday: Mimi and Jaye, I

Mimi and Jaye Pt. 1 Word Count: 426 CW: N/A Related works: N/A The Twin Cities, so called because they mirrored each other on opposite sides of a vast and dirty river, were not friends, nor were they enemies. They were not equals, and yet neither was quite superior to the other. They were […]

Fiction Friday: Pause

Pause Word Count: 333 CW: N/A Related works: Skip I keep not thinking about you, you know. As in, I am intentionally never thinking of you. I am never writing anymore, because anything I finished that was worth a read is full of you. And remember- I am choosing not to think of you. I […]

Fiction Friday: Child Gods

Child Gods Word Count: 480 CW: N/A Related works: N/A “I had a dream about you last night.” When the listener cocked her head in curiosity, the speaker continued. “I was a child, and so were you. Somehow, we were the same age. I was walking along the sidewalk. The neighborhood was unfamiliar to […]

Fiction Friday: Fatal Four

Hello Readers! A quick note: I am in the (very, very slow) process of updating all of the FF posts to include a bit of information at the beginning, such as word count, content warnings, and other related stories. Slowly but surely. Fatal Four Word Count: 6,300 CW: Violence/sexual assault Related works: N/A “Fuck him.” […]

Fiction Friday: Nine Lives

I don’t know when I started being romantic, or when I started believing in romance. I imagine that it happened at the same time that I truly fell in love, and I realized that love was about the understanding that your wildest dreams were realized in the eyes of someone who loved you, someone who […]

Fiction Friday: The Barn

The Barn April Fool’s A Visit Evicted Stranger Phil had to blink rapidly when he saw Kennedy get on the bus. The summer had been very, very good to her. She was wearing her jet black hair down, instead of in a ponytail the way that she had when he left for juvie. She […]

Fiction Friday: Stranger

The Barn April Fool’s A Visit Evicted Stranger Rain was dancing. She was always doing that now. She had taken to ballet a lot faster and better than Phil had thought she would. She was seven, and something about her had changed, lately. He couldn’t put his finger on it, but she wasn’t a […]

Fiction Friday: A Visit

The Barn April Fool’s A Visit Evicted Stranger “Hey.” “Hey. Are you coming over tonight?” “I don’t know if that’s such a good idea.” “It’s been three weeks, Orphan Annie. Come home.” Phil didn’t wait for Kennedy to respond before he hung up. He hadn’t wanted to make the call, but he was exhausted. For […]