Let Me Tell You a Story

top of page

Space Whale Dreams

Search

Shock in the Darkness

Shock in the Darkness

Shock in the Darkness

Based on Canada'a Golgotha by Francis Derwent Wood It's the dead of night and you are sound asleep inside the trench you dug. Dreaming of home, or the Kizar, or some froline, I dunno what Jerries think about. It's cold, dirty, damp. I'm coming to take you out of your misery. In the shadows we lurk, clad in darkness and wearing more blackface than an American minstrel show. In my hand a butcher's cleaver, readied over you. Why not just shoot you? Simple - guns are loud, k

Nov 112 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Bunker

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Bunker

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Bunker

The three of us sat in the concrete bunker. Our living situation since the nukes fell a year ago. One year of sitting in a dark, concrete room under the ground, lit with a fluorescent tube that started flickering two months ago. Shelves stuffed with cans of beans and spam and bottles of water from a begone era where taps existed. The closet of a toilet, which began reeking about six months ago, being the only reprieve from having multiple sets of eyes staring at me, and us. T

Aug 304 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story about a Three Point Turn

Let Me Tell You a Story about a Three Point Turn

Let Me Tell You a Story about a Three Point Turn

Photo by Binyamin Mellish: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-and-gray-concrete-house-with-attic-during-twilight-186077/ Earl and Betty...

Jun 253 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story About an Apartment Demon

Let Me Tell You a Story About an Apartment Demon

Let Me Tell You a Story About an Apartment Demon

Following deals with suicide Catherine sat on the milkcrate within her apartment, furnished with nothing but milkcrates and a mat on the...

May 262 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Tent in the Woods

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Tent in the Woods

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Tent in the Woods

The tent is cold. I am alone. I hate it here. If only I could go home. Except home is no more. What didn’t burn got looted. Whom wasn’t...

May 63 min read

Let me Tell You a Story about a Psychopomp

Let me Tell You a Story about a Psychopomp

Let me Tell You a Story about a Psychopomp

Photo by Tom Johnny fotografias: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-cat-in-dramatic-low-light-portrait-29408186/ Edna laid there, unaware...

Apr 153 min read

Let me Tell You a Story About a Soldier in an Alley

Let me Tell You a Story About a Soldier in an Alley

Let me Tell You a Story About a Soldier in an Alley

Photo by Aleksandar Pasaric: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-dark-alleyway-3123833/ It should have been just like any other day....

Feb 152 min read

Let me Tell you a Story about The Human Warehouse

Let me Tell you a Story about The Human Warehouse

Let me Tell you a Story about The Human Warehouse

“Got elderly parents that can’t care for themselves anymore? Are they wandering around, demented? Can’t get out of bed? Need to be...

Jan 193 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Special Student

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Special Student

Let Me Tell You a Story About a Special Student

There was a town with all girls and women deep in the desert. Outside of one special case, men and boys are not allowed inside the walls...

Aug 13, 20242 min read

Let Me Tell You a Story About the Temple of the Forever Child

Let Me Tell You a Story About the Temple of the Forever Child

Let Me Tell You a Story About the Temple of the Forever Child

On the hill overseeing the valley stood the Temple of the Forever Child in its stone glory. The tall structure, originally a castle long...

May 26, 20242 min read

bottom of page