Stories

Adam and Glenn are getting ready for their annual Valentine's party. However, some memories are making it a more poignant event than they had planned. Join them in remembering how special a childhood toy can be even after many years.

Phillip McGinnis has two problems. First of all someone's trying to kill him. His second problem is he can't smell a thing.

Rudolf wishes something, anything, would happen to break the routine of his life

Sara's brother, Daniel is special and she really doesn't like the idea of her new co worker paying him too much attention. Daniel, on the other hand has different ideas.

Winifred Barrett is good. She was brought in to help meld two corporate identities into one, and winds up taking on more and more responsibilities. Could a career woman back then have it all? One would think not….

Through a series of her letters and journal entries, we learn the answer.

There are lots of differences between Ryan, the Nebraska Marine, and Clayton, the buttoned-down engineer ... but perhaps more in common than either man suspects. Ryan's rebuilding his life after a tour of duty created major changes, while Clayton, at loose ends after the death of his lover, still has secrets that shape his life.
Can they build their strength--and find common ground--within the lion's lair?

These are fragments, short stories and maybe even actual short stories.
Each chapter is its own.
They contain ghosts, giants, magic books, dead people, murder, drugs, suicide...

It's Peter's favorite holiday, and he has something special up his sleeve. When things don't go exactly as planned, he tries to turn it into an April Fool's joke in an attempt to spare his feelings. The joke's on him, though, when his actions produce a result better than he ever hoped for.

The physically handicapped President of the United States pays a visit to a facility in Roswell, NM, at the request of the scientists working there.

Frankie loves his job. He's good at it too. But events conspire to set him adrift.

Grid & Dice prompt: A neurotic tollbooth operator hides in an inner city one-star no-tell motel because: "Fuck, they saw me!"