Category: Short Stories
Deeper
It surrounds me. Envelops me. I push my hands out gracefully against the resistance pressing in. I imagine I am a dancer, or an acrobat caught in slow motion. Each movement of my hands and feet beneath me I coordinate with the rhythmic puff of tiny bubbles that issue from my lips. I look up, [...]
Dogs teaching us new tricks
Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we [...]
The Small Strange Metal Box from Outer Space
By Chris Trappel It traveled through the stars: the planets and the galaxies, time and space, oceans of black and bright, red and orange, heat and ice, orbits and stagnation. Only to reach the unreachable again, further and further it went, on its pathway towards our planet. In its funny rotation it gained speed. It: [...]
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