You have no idea of the life that exists just beneath your toes.
Category: Short Stories
The Countdown
This was the secret to happiness, he believed. “You’ve got to be happy with what you’ve got,” he’d often say to Pebbles as she looked bitterly at the lack of wet food in her bowl. Pebbles did not agree.
Reclamation
Of all the ways humanity imagined its own demise, few predicted it would be at the hands of a plant known colloquially as knockweed. If there were any humans still alive today, they’d frankly be embarrassed.
Clank’s Dilemma
When Benji became sick, all of the playland became sick. For Benji was the Keeper of the Chest, the Boy King, the Great Imaginator. It was his imagination that powered their world, and as the disease dulled his thoughts, their world fell into disrepair.
The Girl Behind Samurai Bistro
Emi shivered against the tiny scrap of cardboard that was her bed.
Woods of the Wendigo
I have done something I fear even God in his infinite grace cannot forgive.
The Ballad of Blue
The dragon Blue, whom you may know,
The one who lost his fire,
He flew the cerulean seas,
With wings that never tire,
Every vein flowing with flame,
A creature to admire,
The Birth of Hati
“A wolf without his pack — what a sight,” said Aerl the rabbit, teasing Sköll as he approached.