Tag: Speculative

• Fantasy

  Self Published: Misadventures of the Peanut Butter Boys

  Hi All! I’m sorry I’ve been a bit lacking in new short stories. I’ve been busy working on editing a book. I’m sure you understand. The Misadventures of the Peanut Butter Boys is an action adventure horror book. It combines the buddy crime solving of Scooby Doo, with real horror…

  March 14, 2023
• Fantasy Fiction Horror Short Story Speculative Weekly

  Helping a Skeleton

  Sam and Teri held their breath. Something was shambling past them towards the gorge. The click and drag of its movement was suggestive. Teri quietly exhaled through her nose and slowly and carefully inhaled. She saw stars. She blinked them away trying to calm her swaying head. As her vision…

  February 16, 2023
• Fiction Horror Short Story

  The Peanut Butter Boys and the Horrific House

  The smell was overpowering. He retched. He wasn’t even to the front door yet. “Who called this in?” He yelled over his shoulder.“The next door neighbor.” His partner said.Bill heard Sam loudly vomit behind him. Bill grimaced as he pulled out a mask. He pulled it over his ears. He…

  October 16, 2022
• Fiction Sci-Fi Short Story

  Emergency Landing

  Everything is hopeless. Fuck it all.Alarms blared. There’s a hiss of air coming from somewhere in the cabin. Lights were flashing. The planet’s surface was rapidly approaching. The baffling on the nose of the ship was on fire.Sweat poured down her face. The other two were out cold. It’s up…

  January 6, 2022
• Sci-Fi Short Story Speculative

  The Edge of Blackness

  He glanced out the window. The inky blackness of space reflected his face back at himself. He saw himself blink. The inky blackness of space wasn’t what he was expecting. There should have been a large planet hanging instead of inky blackness.Sven slid his hand across the edge of the…

  October 7, 2021
• Fantasy Horror Short Story Speculative

  Just Out of Sight

  Kevin did a double take. He’d seen something out of the corner of his eye, again. It was happening more and more often. Kevin shook his head. There was nothing to be done about it.Kevin went on about his day. It was routine, clean the toilet, collect the feminine hygiene…

  September 30, 2021
• Fiction Short Story Speculative

  Quite the Trip

  Elane pushed her daughter into school. Allyson was a freshman in high school, she’d been paralyzed by her drunkard father. Makalya walked next to Elane, she wasn’t too happy about walking into school, her first day of high school, with her mother. Elane was tired. It had been a struggle,…

  September 2, 2021
• Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Short Story

  Death, the Accountant

  Douglas decided it was time for him to step out of the darkness. to take his rightful place in the world again.He smiled as he looked at the little people studying his home. They had these little brushes, large wide brimmed hats, and sacks with pieces of chalk and string.…

  August 26, 2021
• Fiction Sci-Fi Short Story

  For a Hill…

  His knees were screaming in pain. His breath was ragged. Sgt. Ali was scared. He could hear the energy beams slam into the dirt just above their foxhole.They’d been fighting over this stupid patch of ground for weeks now. Upper command never explained why this hill was so damned important…

  August 18, 2021
• Fiction Sci-Fi Short Story

  An Arrogant Colonizer’s Propaganda

  Oh, I just must tell you, dear reader, about the latest discovery on *****. You will simply delight about it. We’ve found intelligent life on this horrendous planet, but like everything else, it’s marvelously confusing! You know the pictures you’ve seen, of these adorable little things? Well, reader, those are…

  August 11, 2021