Unconnected Fiction

Fiction shorts, with various themes and forms.

  • Drive

    I’ll admit it.  It was a mistake. My job is simple. Drive.  Bring Carlo wherever he wants to go.  Open the door, close the door, drive the car. Always put up the partition. Keep my mouth shut. That was the problem. That has honestly always been the problem. It’s like a nervous tic. Stress makes it bad; tense…

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  • Meetings

    I hate these meetings, still.  Don’t get me wrong, I see their worth. Not sure I’d be alive without them; certainly wouldn’t be walking around free. We talk about “jails, institutions, and death” in the halls. Meaning that, in the active grips of our diseases, we can reasonably expect to end up in one of…

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  • JUL 22, 2023 DETAILS It is hotter this July than you can remember it ever being.  Any year, any month. Some of that is atmospheric. The rest?  Purely a result of your choices. You have not stopped since you put on the moccasins. You’ve been following a list, of sorts. Victims chosen from the sex…

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