Published: Jan 25, 2022
Email is Popular
featuring: Kroft Rodgers
I thought about writing this story last week. The plan was to type some words and see what I thought of them. Instead researched the top searched words on Google. I learned ...
Stories
Published: Jan 24, 2022
Shoveled Snow
featuring: Kroft Rodgers
I shoveled the snow this morning. It was a great workout, which is about the only reason I do it. I come into the house, covered in the white stuff below the ...
Published: Jan 23, 2022
Let's Talk
featuring: Kroft Rodgers
I just took up writing again, after many years of typing out computer code. I like sitting on my ass, getting old, wasting away. Whoever said we should all live to be ...
Published: Jan 22, 2022
Virus Blues
featuring: Kroft Rodgers
My son has Covid. Nothing more than a cold, thankfully. I'm writing this down for the future, which future or what future I do not know. Soon viruses will have to spread ...
Published: Jan 12, 2021
Escape Time
featuring: Traelyn Nelsen
Traelyn found an escape pod. Odd, he thought, that after flying spaceships for forty years that this would be the first time he needed one of these. Inside was smaller than he ...
Published: Jan 11, 2021
Crush
featuring: Monica Charles
I started seeing Monica when my wife checked into the rehab center. Not because I was a bad husband or a terrible person, but because I needed comfort. Monica was unafraid to ...
Published: Jan 08, 2021
Job Offer
featuring: Angela Moriss
There was a job offer, but she wasn't certain it was for her. It meant going into an office, the office, again. The people, in person, were not her biggest problem. It ...
Published: Jan 07, 2021
How to Outlast a Door
featuring: Steve Suns
Several days later Steve returned to the door. It was still golden and spotless. He felt just as unsure of his next action as he had at last visit, and quite sure ...
Published: Jan 06, 2021
Used to be Wind
featuring: Steve Suns
"Hard to believe there used to be something called wind," Steve said to Uhlrick. "Never heard of it," the younger man said, swinging from his safety cable from bolt to bolt with ...
Published: Jan 05, 2021
On the Railing
featuring: Paul Wallis
He stood on the bridge, watching the ducks, a few geese. He hated birds, because they could fly and he could not. He stepped up on to the handrail, it was six ...