Short Fiction II

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

-James Baldwin.

Libera Nos

At the last twilight, that blade birthed from the sun’s rage will scour this middle-earth. I once heard a story that sounded the same from the men who carry God on their tongues in a wafer of bread. They are eager for the flames…..”

A Song for Laika

“The dance of meteorites and stardust stops for a second, interrupted by the lapping of a pink tongue washing fur. The street-mutt does not know it. Could not know it. She is the loneliest creature in the Universe….”

Dear Vincent

“Was that how you gazed at our Earth? How boring my surroundings were in comparison. Stiff and stilted, devoid of the light fantastic that coursed through your fingers and spun a sunrise into a kaleidoscope….”

“Books are a uniquely portable magic”

Stephen King