Microfiction
Serve and Protect
Serve and protect, serve and protect. Uphold the law, for the good of law-abiding citizens. I wear my badge with pride. I wear my badge with honour. Protect and serve. That's what I signed up for. I stalk these streets, keeping the peace. Ensuring that the good people are safe from the riffraff that is becoming more of a problem with every day that passes.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Fiction
The Varieties of Religious Experience. Top Story - October 2023.
Some monstrous thing struggles to tear itself out of you. A brutal labor, of which the pangs alone almost kill you, but not soon enough to keep you from experiencing the explosive birth. As the beast bursts free, it eviscerates you in a supernova of muscle and sinew, tenderizing you into choice meat for its first meal, a nurturing sacrifice of the creator to its creature, a nightmare unfolding lovingly before the ghostly presence of a dead god fading...
By C. Rommial Butler2 years ago in Fiction
The Test of the Blue Glow
Once upon a time, in a serene mountain village, there was an ancient well at the center of the village. Legend had it that every night, when all was quiet, a faint blue glow would emanate from the well. Anyone who dared to jump into the well at night would be endowed with magical powers.
By ZHANG Jinming2 years ago in Fiction
Meaniac
To an outsider, especially one without a big, loud and proud family, visiting the Lombardi household for Sunday dinner must have been a strange experience. The children were allowed to, almost encouraged to run riot around the place. They would run around their Nonna's home and treat it like their own assualt course. Jumping over and onto couches, rolling and crawling under tables and sneaking up on unsuspecting family members to attack-cuddle and scare them. Really, they were doing anything they could to be little menaces, without actually hurting anyone or damaging anything deliberately.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Fiction
Gullibaloney
It's tasty, tantalizing and so easy to swallow. It flits across your social media one moment and the next you’re uploading it to your belief system - no questions asked. Bango, presto, you start propagating out the latest conspiracy theory - your new truth – onto Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, DingDong and whatever other time-sucking platforms you belong to as fast as your aching (most likely numb) thumbs will allow and voila... you are now a part of the problem!
By Rick Beneteau2 years ago in Fiction
Vicarishame
If you ever felt embarrassed for someone else, even though you are not the one who did something wrong, you know what I'm talking about. Vicarishame happens when you witness someone say something incredibly stupid, outright lie, being rude to others, or doing something else that you know is wrong. You are ashamed for them, vicariously. For example, I experience this type of embarrassment every time I watch Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show interact with Trump supporters who do not realize how easily they get into his logical traps.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Fiction
Wowtigo
Little Tom ran to the front door of the house. The doorbell had just chimed its beautiful tune. He reached his hand up, turned the door handle and swung open the door. It’s almost as if the sun had deliberately shone down its rays of light onto the person standing in the entrance. It was Grandma.
By Joshua Maggs2 years ago in Fiction
