Categotry Archives: Fiction
Suzie’s House 514 : It’s Alright My Boy, You’re Here Now
The cars whizzing past trailed streamers of light like a high budget art movie. Sunlight in the air put brilliant gold on every speck of dust and time became a relative thing. As far as flashbacks went, this one was both much better and much worse than the average. Better simply from the sheer beauty of Madison Wisconsin in the early Fall. Most trees still shone green, and a clear, powder-blue sky loomed overhead. The hoards of high school kids […]
Sleepy Hollow Take 2
Old man Matheson flicked his rod, letting the line out fast so the floater could land in the river’s current. That should get the hook and fly into the eddy far enough away that his daughter’s shouts wouldn’t disturb the fish. Not that it mattered. Really, he should probably shout back to her, calling her to enjoy this glorious sunset. But sunsets were for quiet, and thinking of all the times you were too foolish to take them in, and […]
Sleepy Hollow
Liam, Alicia, and Sally walked home from school along the twisting dirt road. Already the days grew short and cold. The ordinary became spooky. “I heard there is a haunted tree along here,” Alicia glanced over her shoulder. “Oh! I know just the one. It’s right around the bend.” Sally pointed ahead. “Who are you trying to fool with a story like that.” Liam sneered, but he also walked faster. “Whoooo!” called an owl from the depths of the hollow […]
Suzie’s House 513 : Frozen
Ben and Lisa walked home from school together – home being Ben’s house. Lisa’s mom had been kind of busy the last few days, so Lisa and Tracy both ate with him. Tracy’s mom even paid for it, like it was a business deal. Board without the room. Ben mostly didn’t care. It was only for the next month anyway. How many times would it be his turn to cook? Besides, Lisa and Tracy took turns too. “So I think […]
Ship of Fools
While the party raged below decks, Anita considered her next art showing. It wold be in SoHo, of course. If only she had some idea what to put in it. Despite the balmy, moonlit night, all she could think of were out of season icebergs, homicidal gun collectors, and crazy presidents. By the time she’d made enough pieces to show, would there be a world left? “That’s it!” She shouted, overturning her deck chair. “Zombies! Everyone loves zombies.” The Challenge: […]
Suzie’s House 512 : PDA
“I don’t like it,” Gene mumbled to Tracy as they sat across from each other at a long table in the lunchroom. He could see a dozen girls looking at him from different parts of the room. Normally he’d have focused on the others at their table instead, but none of them had shown up yet. “Just ignore them.” Tracy shoved her sandwich into her mouth like she couldn’t care less, but Gene knew she’d been getting looks from guys […]
Daily Spy Thriller
Matt slipped out the hidden door to the tin roof of the tenement building. The door groaned and chattered closed before the lock clicked home. He paused to be sure no one heard. No sound came from inside. No motion from outside. The clerk of the Quickmart gave him an odd look as he rang up the chips and cigarettes, but none of Matt’s enemies came to thwart him in his quest to free the universe of tyranny and hunger. […]
Suzie’s House 511 : Fan Service
“It’s him!” One of the older girls in Justin’s band class said it in a very loud whisper while leaning toward another. Justin couldn’t remember which instruments they played, but he couldn’t mistake who they were talking about. He was the only one standing in the direction they were looking – behind the kettle drums. The best thing about playing drums for orchestra was that no one expected him to provide his own kettle drum. All he had to do […]
What Friends Are For
“I was in a hurry, so I just shoved my feet into my shoes. And then, you’ll never guess – I felt something move. Inside my shoe! It was….” Alicia paused a moment so she could have a big reveal. “It was a spider.” Sally didn’t even pause as she was rummaged through her medicine chest. “How did you know?” “I saw those shoes yesterday when I was over at your place. They were full of spider webs.” “Oh, you’re […]
Suzie’s House 510 : A Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
“Guess what I heard!” Beth leaned across the aisle so Emma could hear her, though class had already started. “What?” Emma said it real quiet, even though they were at the very back of the classroom, over by the window. The teacher was busy writing something on the chalkboard, so maybe she wouldn’t notice, but it still made Emma uncomfortable.
Eat Your Heart Out
Kimberly cut another slice from the loaf even though the bread was still too warm, and kind of squished. “Not more health food!” Matt stomped around in the kitchen behind her. “All you feed me is rocks and twigs! Can’t we have real food once in a while? Why do you feed me this anyway?” She had planned on slathering on some homemade jam, but seeing the hole in the bread, she changed her mind. She held it up to […]
Suzie’s House 509 : Overheard Identity
“Hey, look it this!” A girl standing next to a locker down the hall showed her smart phone to another girl. “I heard it’s a band made up of people from our school.” Though faint from distance and tinny from the phone’s speaker, Emma could tell for sure it was her band, her song, and her video being shared. Next to her, Kate giggled knowingly. “Hah! It’s already working.” Kate fished her phone out of her bag. She pulled up […]
Weather Permitting
“Is there really a place to camp here?” Carol looked over the hillside. Even if they found a flat spot, everything was covered in sage brush. “Just a little further.” Martin kept up a steady trudge. “We should go back. It look like rain.” She let her distaste out in her voice. “Rain. Beautiful rain. If only it had rained more five years ago. Then this would all still be woods and we would have already set up camp.” “Ah. […]
Suzie’s House 508 : You Always Do
“Walter!” Drew panicked when he found the mobile phone abandoned on a stump next to the back side of Lake Mendota. “Where are you!!!” There was no response. Drew crashed through the underbrush around the lake, painfully aware he was on private property, but that Walter wouldn’t care. Could the old man have slipped in the mud around the shore and drowned in the lake? Could he have drowned on purpose? These were exactly the sorts of things Drew had […]
Relative Values
“You have got to be kidding me. A million bucks for this? The place is a wreck! Daddy, why on earth do you want me to buy it?” Anita glowered at the ivy covered walls. She already had a villa in New Hampshire and a chateau in France. This was supposed to be an artist’s retreat for her and her boyfriend. “I thought you might get a place we both could enjoy.” “You like this?” Anita quirked an eyebrow. “Sure.” […]
