Saturday 1:46 AM Congratulations, Jay, you have no unread messages! Well done and sleep well! Saturday 6:31 AM Good morning, Jay. You’re up early for a weekend! You have forty-seven unread messages. Shall I begin? Confirmed — the coffee machine anticipated you would want one this morning based on when you went to sleep last…Continue Reading “The Internet of Annoying Things”
The boy stared with disbelief at the girl, afraid to even move. He’d never seen anyone more beautiful in his life. The pink hue of her skin. The roundness of her eyes. The way her feelers shivered in the wind. She was without a doubt the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world. He…Continue Reading “Boy Meets Girl”
Louis woke that day unaware of the world, a state in which he seemed to find himself more and more often, oblivious to his wife’s absence from their bed, though he was usually the first to leave bed in the morning. He lay blinking a moment, failing to recognize his immediate environment until some vague…Continue Reading “The Face and the Mirror”
The procession moved along slowly, each pallbearer doing their best to keep the casket level. The wet mud stuck to their soles, staining the black leather with sticky brown patches. The priest waved the thurible back and forth, leaving a cloud of smoke in his trail. Their solemn march led them to the gaping hole…Continue Reading “No-one Comes Around No More”
Like so many times before, there once was a young girl who lived in a small village, in a small country, very far away from where you are reading this story. This girl was very smart, very beautiful, but very lonely. She made her living selling dirt to stupid people. She promised her customers that…Continue Reading “Neckbeard”
Sharon Baker was crouching to pick up two beets, a ham steak, and a packet of lemon drops that had fallen through the rain-soaked bottom of her paper bag from the market when, not for the first time, she saw the dog in the suit jacket walking on his hind legs toward apartment 343. More…Continue Reading “Mongrel Politesse”