A place for short fiction and poetry while your coffee brews or your tea steeps
We’d started loading at the dawning of the third moon. Triage overflowed after the fifth wave from the Kipstanian Crisis. We tried to get the word out to all survivors; transport off our doomed planet ended today. Continue reading “Before The Gold Rush”
I bin standing on this corner in Winslow Arizona since she tossed me out. Well…me, a half dozen t-shirts, some ragged jeans… Continue reading “Takin’ It Easy”
She held the rock to her lips. Copper and silver shone where her fingers caressed.
For a moment, Gichi-gami rolls beneath this secure Virginia town. Continue reading “The Talisman”
She sits on the highway’s gravel shoulder, rubbing her sore, unshod feet. The sun presses hard on her head and shoulders. Continue reading “I Threw a Shoe”
He shambles out of the park, swaying side-to-side, shyly dominating the Midtown sidewalk. Sun glints in his blonde-bronze pelt, furry toes squashing—or shall we say “squatching”?—his platform flip-flops. Continue reading “An Urban Truth”
Walk On The Wild Side
“Between us and heaven or hell is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”.
A writing blog by H.R.R. Gorman
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Finding All Things Nature in Northeastern Illinois
Curiosity run amok . . .
Short, sharp flash fiction
A writer and her unhinged alter ego attempt to navigate the banalities of the Web.
Paranormal Novelist & Fairy Prose Metrist
Rejoice in all things
Growing older with silliness, high spirits and a lot of heart.
Turning dark cracks & broken fragments into golden seams of poetry
Illustrated Short Stories
