Category Archives: interstices

interstice: a space which intervenes between things.

To the dead

While this is not a story, it is interstitial. It is here because it’s a letter than can never be delivered to its intended recipient. Maybe some reader will hear me, and be compelled not to wait to love someone … Continue reading

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Spiral

Her curls cascaded over her shoulders, her forehead, her eyes. They bounced with her laughter and, when she kept her head down, hid the shy flush of her cheeks and the uncertainty in her eyes. His hand was warm and … Continue reading

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Death

Thanks to mouse/maud dib/alphabete/etc for letting me use her blog to post my stuff on. A quick short story for #thursdaytales. The title is, I suppose, “Death.” Somewhere clean, smelling of disinfectant and freshly laundered sheets, a young girl is … Continue reading

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Trade

Inspired by LukeRomyn who tweeted “Hand grenades would be really cool if they were actually shaped like hands.” Upon suddenly realizing it was Thursday and getting a crazy picture in my head, I went with it. It’s about 350 or … Continue reading

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Cubies

This #ThursdayTales story is dedicated to Hel, who once told me during a viewing of  Aliens that he would get a boner too if he got to pilot a drop ship.  It was he who suggested the basic idea.  The … Continue reading

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What Makes a Man

"Devoia?  More like AVOID-YA!" Devoia didn’t know what to do, so she stood there humiliated as Jay walked away.  When she got home she cried into the soft fur of her artificial rabbit. Saturday morning Suzan called, all sunshine and … Continue reading

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Quill

Inspired by a handsome, dapper writer with long hair and a sexy accent.  Written for #SaturdayShortStories at io9. Before Paolo had found himself sequestered from the world in this quaint little cottage he was renting on the grounds of the … Continue reading

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The Heart of the Night

Written for io9’s #ThursdayTales and over the word count limit suggestion, this story is my second fan fiction (the first will be published for #SaturdayShortStories) and is based on Dark City by the niner known as kalaeth.  Before the jump … Continue reading

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Random short story

Which I posted about 24 hours ago at io9. It’s called "Wake" but it should really be subtitled "Read-Only". Here it is, enjoy.

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Beautiful

Another #ThursdayTales story, This time under one thousand words YEAH!  Dedicated to S., who is a beautiful lady and doesn’t realize it. Ugly.  She’d always been ugly.  Her father had told her so, her schoolmates had told her so, when … Continue reading

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