Mistress Ebony and her two guests have just enjoyed a wonderful meal, and what better way to end the night than with some slave party games. Cynthia and two other slaves are pitted against each other in humiliating...
Nine short chapters, 3,827 words(ish) and no mushrooms. Early morning, okay, afternoon. Door bell will not let him sleep, knocking on the window makes it harder and the shouting of his name through the letter...
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city...
They're sick to death of surviving on the scraps of food thrown away by the humans. Pecking through bins and scavenging unfinished discarded kebabs. Frank and his team of highly organized crows aren't going...
She’s looking at me with eyes so blue it seems as though they’re ice chipped from a glacier. Looking at… me… For a second I forget why we’re staring at each other, then Sully nudges me and I remember...
Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil...
It's been in my pocket the entire time. Lending me a comfort the origins of which I had temporarily forgotten. I remember it now, and slowly, I begin to realize I might live.
Word of mouth is the only thing that can make a book really successful. Until recently, this required “pull”—connections with powerful allies in the publishing food chain. Today, creative writers can connect...
A short story describing Day 1 in the new life of Jon Citizen. A life in real estate. When we all thought the real estate industry was as low as it could go, it just gets worse. And worse. A humourous exposé...
When Roger Strang found that someone was killing his son—killing him horribly and often—he started investigating. He wasn't prepared to find the results of another investigation—this time about his own...
If you're like Mr. Davis, you're unsatisfied with your life. Of course, if you're like Mr. Davis, you've reached the end of your life and a none too happy ending it was. Ready for a new life, Mr. Davis now has...
A Short Story by Michael Graeme (a fifteen minute read): ...I have a problem with my memory. It isn't that it ever fails me - quite the opposite in fact. Indeed, my recall of events from all but the earliest...
25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day...
A short story. The idea being this;- start with one of the basic human questions, with no idea what the answer is and, well, type bollocks and see where we end up.
mellophobia
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