Fiction

Short stories, microfiction, and some longer pieces

‘Dapper’ Dale’s death

Dale had done this to him. Threat after threat sandwiched by false friendship, even sympathy. Dale played with him until Ted finally broke.
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Mountain Pressure

Ups and downs and winter birds singing around them. The pine trees’ scent, the wind in the needles above and around them.
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Lucy’s days

The noodles would slip down and fill his stomach, taking away the humiliation he felt at being in debt to his own daughter.
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It Comes to Some of Us in the End

Tom ‘Bopper’ Keys was returned unto the earthly Earth. That much was certain.
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Sydney by Cab

I’ve heard of thousand dollar bottles, dug from Napoleonic cellars over which a shopping mall was soon to rise.
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‘Dapper’ Dale’s death