Microfiction
The Hardship Generator
I call myself "The Hardship Generator". Good title, eh? It's not your typical hero's name, I'll grant you but then what I do is not your typical hero work. I'm working for the good of humanity but mine's more the long game, not the "swoop in and save them" like your Superman.
By Rachel Deeming3 years ago in Fiction
A Few Moments More. Top Story - May 2024.
You’ll give it one more minute, and then you’re headed back inside. It’s pretty chilly out, after all. Not that that’s a real issue - you’ve stood out here for longer, and in colder weather. The snow is nearly gone already; tiny, dirt-stained islands of the stuff form a shrinking archipelago dotting the sea of green that is your backyard. Striations of sunlight dance through the trees at the edge of the woods and paint the scene in a camouflage of brown, green, and gold.
By Gabriel Huizenga3 years ago in Fiction
Anything Can Happen
Daphne Jane Donnelly slapped the snooze button for the umpteenth time just as soon as the alarm went off, all for another 60 seconds of sweet, sleepy bliss. A risky move, to be sure, but one she was more than willing to make, for she was at her wits end with her daily life. Her soul-sucking and mind-killing corporate job can go straight to hell for all she cared. Bills and debts be damned.
By Jackie Barrows3 years ago in Fiction
Admission
Always, we must consider the price of admission. Slowly, I peel the leather glove from my left hand, just as Grandmother taught me. Blue shadows play upon my newly exposed skin, imprinting upon me a strange cyanotype that I dare not decipher. I look away.
By Hannah Corinne3 years ago in Fiction
On Hold
Being on hold is annoying. We all despise it, the dumb hold music that sounds like it belongs in an elevator and of course it gets stuck in your head playing over and over. Yet, here I was just bopping along to the music waiting for someone to pick up. I would normally hang up, but someone had hacked into my bank account and treated themselves at one of the most expensive hotels in the world: Four Seasons hotel for 45, 000 grad which was mean to go to my downpayment for my house and last time I called they simply closed down that card and gave me a new one they did not even refund that money that was taken away. My husband was to be contributing 50,000 luckily, they only got me this time and I can still hear my husband's voice in my head "It's probably from shopping on Temu". Yeah, I do spend a lot of time scrolling, but I bought something last week and it was not them. My item arrived without fail and the card would have said Temu transaction or something of that effect. I started to unload the dishwasher, then suddenly came on the voice that I had been waiting for:
By Adrianna M. Braun3 years ago in Fiction
