Category: Shorts

Original short stories, probably based in the shared world I’ve been working on for many years

  • Eustace’s Keys

    There was a knock at Kat’s door. It woke her up. Once again, she’d fallen asleep at her desk, drunk, trying not to dream the same nightmare. Successfully, this time. The knock at the door in the early morning, piercing her headache, was an entirely different kind of nightmare. “Hold on,” Kat grumbled, straightening her…

  • The Skeleton King

    “I am the Skeleton King,” rasped the skeleton as it clawed its way out of the ground, covered in dirt and splinters, its movements stilted and unnatural. “Uh huh,” said the gravedigger, and smashed the skull with his shovel.