Water is Life

You don't really understand how much of your body is made of water until you have a summer head cold. Then you can truly appreciate the amount of liquid that can drain from your sinuses into the back of your throat or onto the tissue you are trying to keep over your nose as you …

Cogito, Ergo Sum

"Are all those...me?" I asked. Watching myself ripple out across time, and staring at the vast numbers of me in the sky. Yes. Came the answer. And then as an afterthought, or perhaps an addendum. And everyone else, as well. "But" my voice quaked and shook, "that means we are all one?" "What about who …

“More Coffee?”

This piece of flash fiction was written after talking to a friend who was reminiscing about how we used to have brunch at a certain diner every week or so, and how much she missed it. We got to know most of the waitstaff there, and the cook - all of whom were sweet and …

The Tattoo

As preface to all my weird stories, I feel obligated to let people know that I was raised on "Fractured Fairy Tales" and "Twilight Zone" and "Outer Limits"...then later "Night Gallery" held me in thrall. So I feel it only natural that my imagination heads into the weird and slightly horrific. This story "The Tattoo" …

Imaginary Friends

This qualifies as weird flash fiction, was published in the Fantastic Femme Fiction ezine (now defunct), and had quite a few interesting comments generated from its first audience. Apparently I struck a nerve with some folks. Hopefully you can just enjoy it. Sara, who was four, sat with her Mom - Diana, in the well-appointed …

The Cocooning

This was my homage to Cthulhu Mythos and Saturday morning horror movies from my childhood. It was originally published in Fantastic Femme Fiction (now defunct) and I am sharing it with you this fine Saturday - because it is a perfect day for B Horror movies. 🙂 Enjoy Millie Kruza and her friends were good …

The Dollhouse

Here is another story, originally published in Fantastic Femme Fiction (a now defunct ezine). It is a ghost story of sorts, but not the kind you are probably thinking of; and while it qualifies as weird fiction - it is also just a tale of two women becoming friends, and then choosing to be family …

Thank you for your time

I wrote this Flash Fiction/Weird Fiction for a submission call that I saw, asking for a piece featuring a villain. I like to think that most villains are not easy to spot, and so I wrote a piece with a perky supernatural "villain" - who exists by stealing time from the living. (I got a …

Styxchat

I wrote this a couple of years ago, around Halloween. It is flash fiction, and weird fiction (of course). And if you lived in San Francisco during a certain couple of decades, you might recognize the Mystic Eye, which was an occult bookshop not far from City Lights. Enjoy! It had been a deep dark …

The Three Sisters

This flash fiction falls under the categories of Weird and Horror - it was inspired by the Lovecraftian universe of stories, and I included it in my collection of short stories entitled "Schrodinger's Kids and Other Short Stories" (available on Amazon in ebook and paperback). The “Three Sisters” were standing stones at the edge of …