Fiction
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The spaceship flickered in and out of visibility as it emerged from the ocean. The package has been delivered and primed. The craft disappeared again, momentarily outlined by moonlit seawater flowing over its vast body as it slowly rolled before rising into the night sky. It left the planet unnoticed, just as it had come,…
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John and Paul were right. All you need is love. The Beatles, not the apostles. To know unbounded love must be heavenly. Love that does not limit, inhibit, or prescribe. Why do we struggle so with it? When we love someone, we want to change them, make them something else! This is not love, but…
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The world has gone to shit. Ok, not the world. It is still the same rock spinning through space. People have gone to shit. Sally knows this because she watches the news. Some television networks will demonize a particular political group, while others retaliate and attack the political group that their competition seems to support.…
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The cow did not look right. It labored to walk. The extra limbs that grew out of its sides seem to move on their own accord, getting in the way. Sue saw the cow stumble past the kitchen window. ‘There’s a break in the fence again, ‘ she says over her shoulder before resuming her…
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“I’ve never seen anything like this before”, Billy expertly spits dip-slop at a fly, knocking it down. “Looks all wrong”, he continues, poking at the thing they found with a dirty boot. He does not always spit accurately, and his shoes and clothing are stained as evidence. “Looks like a picture my sister’s kid once…
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I don’t like myself. I am unbearable, hard-headed, opinionated, and arrogant. Sometimes I am just a troublemaker. I know this not from self-discovery, but from something less subjective. Two months ago, I came home from a day spent with friends, watching a full solar eclipse. The eclipse was spectacular! Seeing the sun disappear, hearing the…
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By all accounts Joe is ‘a good man’. He was born the only child to Joe and Joanne Wish. His parents loved each other and raised him well. Unfortunately they also gave him their unremarkable genes, and the last name Wish. His mother was short. His father was wide. Joe was short and wide. ***…
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Sunday morning church service started like every other. Congregants talked and laughed in hushed tones, genuinely happy to see each other, or faking it so masterfully that no one could tell the difference. They laughed, joked and judged each other by their cars and clothes, and secretly thanked their lord that they were doing so…
Tales from my head 