Author’s note: This is specifically written in an evolving juvenile manner to reflect how younger cancer patients have no idea they are dying, let alone sick, yet are going through all of this pain and...

The city of Dionysia groaned with misery. Its maze of cobblestone streets and alleyways was perpetually cloaked in a dreary haze. The city exuded a mournful symphony of decay, occasionally punctuated by...

16th of May, 1958 7:00 pm Salt air burns my throat as I slowly wade through the fields of overgrown blades, untrodden for so long. Despite their rippling in the breeze, they still appear frozen,...

Fog slithered through the trees like ghostly tentacles, clutching at my coat. My boots sank into the spongy earth, leaving muffled squelches with every step. The damp air clung to my skin, slightly rotten...

This is the first of a series. Each short story is inspired by a music album. The following is inspired by ‘Modern Life is Rubbish’ by Blur.     Summer rain could freeze your toes....

How can you be a man? Yes; how can I be a man, when I sent him to his grave. *** The night grew suddenly still. All night owls, tree branches creaking, critters rustling in the leaves, ceased....

I had a dream that all my teeth fell out.   I hadn’t just awoken from it, being that I could never sleep on trains, nor did I dream it last night. It’s some odd thing that made its way to...

My heartbeat quickened as I stood at the edge of the field, my magenta soccer boot studs digging into the damp earth. The crowd hummed with anticipation, but my focus was locked on the opposing team.   My...

Deep beneath luscious rainforests, in a virus containment lab nestled gently amongst the darkness and natural enclosure purposefully kept separate from the outside world, Eve gently lifted a vial. A...

Jeremy’s fish store was visited mainly by children, often with parents in tow who promised them a pet but didn’t want to commit to a dog. They swarmed the store at Christmas, bought the odd bottle...

Every morning, 6 o’clock sharp, the citizens of The Greatest Town In The World – the best town you will ever live in - awake to the chirping that rings around their home, by the wooden bird that leaps...

Bunzo was a rabbit of four months with a stout body and poor hind limb. Bored of his days laying with the bark and clovers, he trudged to the edge of the woods until he found the Light. *** The Light...