Six Sentence Stories – First Draft
A half-balled wad of paper sailed across the room – whoosh – into the can. The sun moved with purpose past the windows of the room and as the light waned, so did his confidence and page by page, chapter by chapter, words sailed across the room, the tightening wads a clear indicator of his mounting frustration. He looked at the clock; bloody…
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Six Sentence Stories – The Secret
“This is all your fault!” she screamed. The demon smirked quietly to himself; maybe if she didn’t find it so thrilling to keep feeding me, she wouldn’t be in this position. But he liked her here – needy, never satisfied, desperate for the next volume and the next to feed this gorgeous compulsion he embedded…
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Six Sentence Stories – The Lie, Parts 8 – 11
Jack had always loved the stars. From the time he was old enough to look up at the evening sky through an empty toilet paper roll clutched in his hands, all he could imagine was being up there among them and not stuck here on Earth. The night skies offered Jack a place to focus…
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Six Sentence Stories – The Lie, Part 7
Jack’s mind rocketed back and forth through time grasping at fragments of memory as he lay trapped inside his own pain, half hoping for death. His only escape was to linger in moments when he was happy, when he held Andie close and breathed her deeply as though he could draw her inside of him. The fire in his lungs reminded him of…
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Six Sentence Stories – A Bark in the Night
“Does that damn dog ever stop barking?” Tim grumbled as he threw back the covers and stuffed his feet into the moccasins sitting at the ready beside his bed. The neighbors bought the dog back in the spring and for some reason, it hated the husband – not that anyone else on the block could stand him –…
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Six Sentence Stories – Inspiration
Chef loved the markets in the early morning. He loved the sound of the water slapping the docks nearby and the gulls crying overhead, the quiet bustle of the merchants unpacking and preparing for the day under the soft glow of naked light bulbs, the chill in the air waiting anxiously for the sun to…
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Six Sentence Stories – The Lie, Part 6
Andie sat next to the makeshift cot listening to Jack’s labored breathing as her thoughts wandered to their first meeting… She stood on the stoop looking from the address on the paper in her hands to the number on the door, her hair sticking in wet strands of what used to be ringlets around her face, her green raincoat untied and hanging open…
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Six Sentence Stories – The Lie, Part 5
A slow death by exsanguination would pass more quickly than the silence that lay between them. Jack held his breath, partly because it had become nearly impossible to inhale without pain searing his lungs, but mostly because doing so would move time forward and he didn’t want to live in a moment when she didn’t know him.…
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Six Sentence Stories – The Contract
Hector’s hand hovered above the paperwork, unmoving, uncooperative, disobedient to the urging in his mind. He knew the contract was bad from the start and he never should have started the project; no one agrees to terms like these, but when a man is just desperate enough he’ll agree to anything. Well, almost anything…there are some things even…
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Six Sentence Stories – Reflection on a Railway
How much power lives in a moment? Life churns along, making steady progress across the landscape. You travel slowly up mountains, calmly across plateaus, more rapidly down hills on the other side; the legs of the journey vary, but always take you forward. You decide you’re making good time, estimate your anticipated arrival, and settle comfortably for a nap,…
