A/N: Prompt: Ledge. This trio is growing on me. Ellen’s story this time. A bit of it at least. 1062 words.

Playing House

Contrary to what everyone thought, it was Anton who introduced Ellen to Macky, and not the other way around. “Of course people would like to believe the other story,” Ellen thought as she slipped a last bobby pin into her updo. An ( Read more... )

A/N: Prompt: Grain. Taken a bit from something I’m working on. 386 words

Slacktivist

“I heard somewhere that a single grain of rice can tip a scale, but I have yet to see that happen.”

The law student seated in the corner simply adjusted the bookstand that threatened to topple off the cafe table. “Have you ever tried it for yourself, Ellen?” he ( Read more... )

A/N: Prompt: Patience. 211 words

Theta Wave

“Same dosage, as always.”

The young woman frowned at the prescription on the desk, and the electroencephalogram results on her lap. At least she could be thankful that the test results did not show anything worse. “At least it’s just theta waves. A minor disturbance,” she said lightly.

The doctor smiled ( Read more... )

Prompt: Vamos. Finally up for reading: life from young Azucena Torralba’s point of view. 602 words.

What’s In a Name?

“What sort of people live here?”

Azucena shook her head, once again unable to give a good answer. The scrawny teenager’s dark eyes drifted to the reeking hill just a stone’s throw away from where she stood at the muddy intersection ( Read more... )

A/N: Genre: Urban. Trying again another style.  1096 words.

His Eye and Mine

nbsp;              I saw him on the train again, much in the same way I had seen all my other loves. Even in that sweaty crush on the platform, he was impossible to miss with his height and his golden hair. He may as well have been Michaelangelo’s David, or the Greek god ( Read more... )

A/N: Genre: Tall Tale. Warning for more squick, blood, gore and disturbing incidents than usual. Introducing a new character, Alistair. This is a thread I want to explore. 1467 words

A Belly of Birds

The man who had a flock of birds trapped in his stomach came to us at the hour when the moon began to set. He had come all the way down ( Read more... )

A/N: Historical Fiction. Technically this is Philippine history, though this piece is set at a time when I had just turned two years old. Loosely based on what my family did during the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano in 1991. 517 words.

Enclosed: Lahar

June 18, 1991

My dear Ricardo,

I suppose you know by now what has happened this month in the ( Read more... )

A/N: Prompt: Chrysalis. 327 words

Continuity

“Was it always your favourite color?”

I smiled before putting on the cardigan I’d thrown over the back of a chair. “Not really. For years I liked wearing blue. That was all before I turned seventeen.” Even now I could still see the pictures in my mind, images of a girl in ( Read more... )

Excerpt from this year: In which Claude encounters an unsettling character

As the clock struck nine, a clattering sound came from the queue. “Let me go ahead. I have to see the doctors,” a cracked male voice called flamboyantly.

“Excuse me Sir, but you will have to wait in line with everyone else!” Mikey shouted. “Who on earth is he ( Read more... )

A/N: Prompt: Shell. A silly piece. A ‘noodle incident’ also has an interesting definition on TV Tropes. Told in a different narrative style.  1744 words.

Noodle Incident 64

Of course everyone knows that large lectures can be problematic. Half the class dozes off, and everybody else is either playing on their tablets, studying for ( Read more... )