Stories about Oil
My new online friend informed me of a new Fictionaut group I’ll be contributing to in the near future called “Oil.” Some good stories so far. Check it out.
Wolves at the Door
The wolves were at the door, finally. Jackie waited for them all night long and got good and drunk in the process, and now they were pounded and pounded and pounded hard and demanded entrance. “Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved [...]
“If I die again, just let me go”
Will made the mistake of asking Doobie Brother if he could remember what happened after he died. “Did you see anything? People say they have those kinds of experiences all the time. Bright light and all.” “I don’t remember anything. I never remember anything that happens right before a seizure,” Doobie said. “It’s just nothing [...]
Breath of Fresh Air
Their situation could not go on like it had been. Ricky watched from the sidelines as their marriage spiraled downward over the past three months until finally one night Janet broke down and let the waterworks loose. She buried her flour-covered hands in her face and was a mess when she came back up for [...]
Q&A with Susan Tepper
Fictionaut member and story contest participant (and April Fools’ Day challenge winner) Susan Tepper recently released a new collection of short stories called DEER and Other Stories, available at her website for $14. The book can also be found at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powell’s Books online. Tepper grew up on Long Island where [...]
Review: DEER and Other Stories by Susan Tepper
NOTE: There is also a Q&A with Susan Tepper you can read about DEER and Other Stories by clicking here. The other day, a new friend of mine Susan Tepper sent me a package in the mail including a fresh-from-the-press smelling new copy of her recently released short story collection, DEER and Other Stories. She’d [...]
Recently published work online
Hey everyone! Go check out “Prince Charming,” a new story that has been posted to 52/250.
Review of “King of the Mountain” by Kevin Myrick
By Susan Tepper Because we are in the midst of war, because the world seems always at war, we as writers often can’t help but become invaded within our minds, our stories becoming those of war and its aftermath. In Kevin Myrick’s amazing “King of the Mountain,” Daniel is a man at war. He served [...]
Review of “Did You Know? Fun Facts About Flaggish Things” by
By David Ackley Editor’s note: you can find the story here. The form: That of a lecture, maybe based on an instructional manual on flag handling read in the distant past, by now largely forgotten, the lecturer having with predictably disastrous results deciding to discard her notes and “wing it.” The voice that of a [...]
King of the Mountain
Daniel told himself to push. — push harder than he’d ever pushed himself before. He reminded himself of what his father once told him: don’t give in to pain. Be a real man. You can take it. But his arms felt like they were full of petroleum jelly; they were cramped from the already ten [...]
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