Romance . Horror . Science Fiction . Fantasy . Drama
The Universal Axiom
Everyone picked their base alien from the tub. Xhaka grabbed a human. The little wrigglers. Choori would love it.
Hunting for Love
He would whisper succulent loving words in her ear that spoke of the ambrosial night to come. She pictured the scrape of the hair on his chin as he nuzzled her haunches and she trembled. Soon.
And The Legend Lived On
The story of a revolutionary, set during India’s struggle for independence from the British.
Death Do Us Part (Please)
Harvey flickered a sigh. He should never have tried to comfort Maude after the accident.
Nor Death Do Us Part
“I promised her on our wedding day,” he said, watching the tremor in her hand as she dabbed cream on a papery cheek, “that we’d never spend a night apart.”
The Potential Punishment
She turned to see him lounging against the wall, collar popped, a drumstick twirling between his fingers - the pinnacle of preteen cool. All of the attitude, none of the puberty.
Hope
He recalled the wallet he’d found inside a bush, its unlucky pilot owner probably a bunch of maggoty chunks sprayed across the Japanese countryside right now.
To Love is Human
He was being silly and he knew it. Agonising over clothes for a tea party where he might be poisoned. Ridiculous.
Matthew 19:6
Buddha floated in serene conversation with Thor and a monstrous tentacled humanoid dragon.
Winner
I tried to pick ones who had it coming, but who was I kidding? None of these women deserved a death like this.
Hair of the (Sub-humanoid Entity) Dog
Primary humanoid activities at Reservoir seem to be terrestrial and aquatic locomotion. Nutritional intake of a beverage known as Beer seems frequent.
Fairest of Them All
By the end of the day, The Girl – Her skin fair as snow, Her hair black as ebony, Her lips red as rosebuds, Fairest of Them All - would be dead. All these other noisy loiterers too. And then, finally - finally! - the mirror would have happier things to say again.
The Writing on the Wall
Like the guy at the wedding expo. Say it with skywriting, he’d said. It’ll have her weak at the knees, he'd said.
Plane Vanilla
Then Sue discovered the armrest between their seats moved. That might work. The lights would be dimmed soon, yeah? David asked the steward for an extra blanket.
The Holiday
“Mrs Fletcher never did with flying,” the old man said.
We Are Only Human
They just stayed there, those formless oceans of beautiful light. We knew they were aliens. What else could they be?
The Lady and the Gropuchik
She stepped forward then - a Big Sister - picked up Uday’s stick and put an arm around her little brother. Her jaw was set, her body stiff with tension as she locked eyes with the Gropuchik and pointed the stick at him. “I won’t let you hurt him,” she said.
Birthday Girl
It had been pink once, her blanket. With white unicorns. You could hardly see them now through the grime.