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Category: Short Stories
Quartet – Coronavirus Mini-Story of the Day
Ragusa, 1398. Guillermo lays on the floor. He’d always kept to himself on board, none of his shipmates realizing how much he wondered if the tick tock steps of feet walking by his bunk might be someone who would talk…
Done Under the Sun – Coronavirus Mini-Story of the Day
Carrie’s brain lit up, and so she Googled. love in the time of corona About 2,100,000,000 results. “Two billion? Are you kidding me? Shit… Okay…” COVID’s Metamorphoses About 323,000 results. “Dammit! What else, what else?” She sat there, trying to…
Wall, Eee! – Coronavirus Mini-Story of the Day
The line stretched through half the park. The dotted line — each member of the queue six feet behind the next. It wound through playgrounds and picnic areas, parking lots and ballfields, leading finally to the entrance gate for the…
An Innovative Use for Excess Chicken Wire – Coronavirus Mini-Story of the Day
If you’d asked Farley when he’d gone out to the chicken coop that morning for fresh breakfast eggs if he had any idea he’d be looking at sex dolls online as he ate his lunch, he’d have said no. Something…
Cleanroom Gowning Protocol – Coronavirus Mini-Story of the Day
In Cleanroom #17 at the mammoth microprocessor manufacturing plant where they worked, the evening shift saw the clock inch toward quitting time. Greg and Bob tidied up their respective workstations and moved to the airlock, proceeding through it individually into…
The Indie Movie – Coronavirus Mini-Story of the Day
The smartphone cameraperson captures the married couple, playing strangers in a grocery store’s empty toilet paper aisle, glossy eyes burning through each other. Abruptly, mutually, recklessly, they fall into each other’s arms. Minutes later in the parking lot, the couple,…
Nothing but Flowers (a short screenplay)
Yuppie couple goes back to the land – sells trendy Toronto pad, he quits his job as Head of Hostile Takeovers at DigestCom and she quits her job as a patent lawyer. They use all the money from the sale of their pad to buy a small plot of land on Galiano Island and live out of a lean-to eating deer meat and wild berries. They suffer severe caffeine withdrawal and can’t beat their insomnia. Hilarious adventures ensue.
The Obtuse Angel of Irreversible Alterations (& Irresistible Alliterations)
Everybody knows (by now) about Adam and Eve and ‘Let there be light’ all cast into (surreptitious) darkness by an overzealous Angel of Such: Beelzebub. Lesser known, though, is Beelzebub’s younger brother Bozzlebub, who is more commonly known, to those…
A Creation Story
This piece appeared in the first and only issue of Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between, which evolved into this website. In the beginning there was nothing. Lots and lots of nothing. Then one day a…