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A story about escape and becoming. This story was published in the Summer 2011 issue of The Quotable. Read More

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Marco Delgado's life of crime is about to come to an end, At present he doe not appreciate it is the best thing that could happen to him. His brush with death will bring him in contact with the Book. Read More

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Short Story / Literary Fiction

December 08, 2024

Reads: 53

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: literature, revolution, piano, storytelling, short-fiction

a sc-fi short story about a failed revolution and the bloodshed following it Read More

Tags: sci-fi, short-fiction, nowerewolvesunfortunately

Book / Other

August 30, 2023

Reads: 37385

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A collection of my amateur creative writing work. It features a variation of poems and other short works, including a short script and short story. This will continue to update in time as i add more to it.... Enjoy! Read More

Tags: poems, graphic, collection, short-fiction, poetry-book

This book contains all of the short stories in my Mindscapes collection newly revised and edited. It also includes three new short stories. A free preview is available at Amazon. and other leading book sellers. The scope of this collection extends from the innermost dimensions of the mind to the… Read More

Tags: science-fiction, short-stories, literary-fiction, short-fiction, speculative-fiction

A very short segment written as a warm-up exercise before I got on with something else I'm currently writing Read More

Tags: crime, exercise, noir, short-fiction

Tags: introvert, short-fiction

Tags: suicide, coming-of-age, young-love, sexual-abuse, short-fiction

The Earth was generous. The Beasts were tame. The memory is lost. A world was created. And so was Man and Woman. They were appointed to rule over their dwelling and everything it encompasses. The world was different then. And so were the people. The story of creation, and that… Read More

Tags: short-fiction, garden-of-eden, adam-and-eve, biblical-fiction, untold-story

Prompt: It was the summer of 1956 when I first realized I could breathe underwater. Read More

Tags: dark, horror, flash-fiction, short-story, short-fiction

trying to cook? careful what book you use Read More

Tags: magic, spells, short-fiction

Short Story / Flash Fiction

May 05, 2021

Reads: 651

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: fiction, flash-fiction, flash, short-fiction

Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for. A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen… Read More

Tags: romance, spiritual, literary, short-stories, short-fiction

Short Story / Thrillers

March 27, 2021

Reads: 632

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: writer, short-fiction

Jack will find out how dangerous it is to piss off the wrong people online. Read how dangerous it can be to hide behind a screen of anonymity. Read More

Tags: thriller, coffeeshop, short-fiction

Few are destined to meet. But what's exciting is how the life plots a plan to get them to meet. So here is a story of a girl named Dhanya & a man named Ram who are destined to meet & they does meet in a most craziest manner. The… Read More

Tags: romance, short-stories, short-fiction, c

Short Story / Other

June 11, 2020

Reads: 1165

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Sometimes, when life knocks you down and drags you, getting up is hard. Hang on to what's good with both arms, and get up anyway. Somehow. Read More

Tags: overcoming, surviving, short-fiction, life-events, leslie-p-garcia

A short story about an unnamed superstar learning a new move from an unlikely source in an unlikely place and learning something about himself in the process. Read More

Tags: basketball, short-fiction, magical-realism

Short Story / Humor

October 12, 2018

Reads: 965

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Body and soul struggle in an epic battle. Read More

Tags: humor, surrealism, short-fiction

A boy named Negundo is waiting for a wasp to be born. Read More

Tags: short-fiction, surealist

Short Story / War and Military

February 08, 2018

Reads: 961

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Morgan is filthy rich and living in a large loft, in the center of New York City. Only it's seven years after the second civil war and New York is not longer the old New York. Water is more expensive than diamonds to Civilians, while central park is replaced… Read More

Tags: short-fiction, original-character

Short Story / Horror

January 12, 2018

Reads: 1121

Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Alan Hagan, high-flying lawyer, receives a visit from an old friend Read More

Tags: ghost, retribution, speculative, short-fiction

Short Story / Science Fiction

January 12, 2018

Reads: 1262

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

In the future, will we go back to where we came from? Read More

Tags: sci-fi, short-fiction, speculative-fiction

Very short piece of fiction depicting a husband with depression. It is meant to be a small example of an experiment where I try to blend my poetry with my fiction (i.e. attempting to find my "voice"). Read More

Tags: depression, fiction, writing, mental-health, short-fiction

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