Briane Pagel
Bio
Author of "Codes" and the upcoming "Translated from the original Shark: A Year Of Stories", both from Golden Fleece Press.
"Life With Unicorns" is about my two youngest children, who have autism.
Find my serial story "Super/Heroic" on Vella.
Stories (25)
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It Turns Out This Town Is Exactly The Right Size For The Two Of Us.
“Well, well! Black Bart, just coming out of the 5th National Bank, hands full of bags of money and your trusty old revolver! Isn’t it lucky that I just arrived here in time, on this dusty old street, ready to have a shootout with you after first talking a bit.”
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
Waterfalls
Once, when the boys were very little, I wanted to get a therapy dog for Dylan. That was after he ran away when he was four, making it nearly a half-mile from our house walking along a busy street in just a diaper until he was found by a nurse who called into 911 about the time that I did.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Families
Our Time-O-Scope Shows That All Of The Kids At The Science Fair Will Go On To Do Great Things, Except For Tommy, Who Will Die Horribly By The End Of This Fair.
“Welcome, everyone, to the 14th annual Bronson LaFollette 8th Grade Science Fair, where this year for the first time we will be judging the entries not just on originality, completeness, and scientific accuracy, but also on how much today’s performance in the science fair impacts your little darling’s future performance in society, thanks to the Time-O-Scope that Mr. Ott has finally perfected, the patent for which he has generously granted to the school after using it to realize that the three children born to his marriage would actually be the result of an affair his wife is having with his brother, one which started, ironically, at the same time he began to devote himself to inventing the Time-O-Scope! Could’ve used this little number before you actually invented it, eh, Mr. Ott? Live and learn, live and learn.”
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
Yes, I want your investment but I’d also appreciate you helping me recapture these clones.
Thanks for meeting with me today, and I apologize for running a little bit late. Better late than never, right? Unless you’d rather I’d have not shown up at all, what with the clones escaping in your lobby.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
Sally, Who Never Existed
They say everything exists until it doesn’t, that every possibility exists all at once and all the time, every thing that could ever happen or never happen is all there, just ahead of us, an explosive array of options ranging from miniscule changes in our life to colossal upheavals that would wrench our minds, all these things hovering just out of our reach and intangible, unseeable, unknowable, but existing anyway.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
If you want us to consider your submission to my online literary magazine, make sure you read the guidelines first.
We’re glad you’re interested in submitting your work to our online literary magazine. While we regret that we can’t pay you, we think that the promise of seeing your work on our website, as opposed to your own, will be more meaningful to you than any amount of remuneration could be.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
Jesus And The Apostles Versus The Dragons.
“Jesus,” said Peter, “How are we going to keep this out of the papers?” “What papers?” wondered Jesus, but He knew that someday ‘the papers’ would be invented and that someday even further everyone would blame the Internet for killing off papers, only He wasn’t going to stop the Internet from being invented, just delay it past the 1970s. God only knows why THAT was the plan, and He wouldn’t tell Jesus.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
“I Have Been Waiting So Long For My Prime Rib & Chicken Sizzlin’ Skillet, I Have Been Able To Read 7 Wikipedia Articles Chosen At Random.”
I really think that this is ridiculous, don’t you honey? I mean, I have now just finished my seventh Wikipedia article at random, reading on my phone like a sucker, stuck in this booth and wondering if I should get a second refill of my diet Coke ™ before my food even arrives.
By Briane Pagel4 years ago in Fiction
The Future Of Giraffes
If you are going to write about giraffes, the temptation is to call them all names like "Gerald" or "Rafael," but if your story is one in which a boatload of giraffes goes to war in the beginning of time then... wait, "Rafael Giraffe" actually sounds pretty good.
By Briane Pagel5 years ago in Fiction
Balloons
I like to think about them sometimes, the balloons. The only balloon I remember from my childhood was the balloon I got while waiting for my parents to find me when I was lost at the State Fair. I remember getting lost, following someone who looked like my dad but wasn't my dad, and then realizing that fact, and being lost. I don't remember how I was found by the people who gave me the balloon and I actually don't remember my parents coming and getting me from the tent where I was waiting. I do remember, though, that the balloon had been tied around my wrist so that I wouldn't lose it. Only I lost it. It came untied, and as we were walking away from the tent, the balloon slipped off my wrist and floated up into the air, drifting away.
By Briane Pagel5 years ago in Families
