Category: Shorts

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

  • The Lookout

    This short is a chunk of a bigger project I’m working on. Sort of an anthology that tells smaller stories around the central events of the longest D&D game I ever ran. Still experimenting, and I cut a lot before posting – it’s too easy to ramble on this topic. Expect to see this revised…

  • Shot in the Dark

     “So you can get rid of other people’s ghosts, but not me?” griped Frank in a tone that would sound like he was grinding his teeth, if he had any. “Shut up, Frank,” hissed Kat. “We talked about this. Not at my fucking job.” Kat was waiting in the mid-sized but lavishly decorated lobby of the…

  • The Nightmare Patient

    Wenzi had only just taken her shoes off to sit down when an emergency-coded call came in on her personal radio frequency. “Doctor Wenzi, this is Doctor Braddock, please come in. Urgent.” Wenzi looked around her apartment, regretfully taking it in. She hadn’t had time to appreciate her old fashioned, delicate yet cozy home recently.…

  • 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.