Category: Free stories

The Game of Cribbage Let me tell you a story about a Game. The game was cribbage. It’s a card game, and you use a wooden board to keep score. Thirty points a street for four streets, and one more to get home. But it …

I wrote this short story from the point of view of the traditional “monster”. It has it all – the dark-and-stormy-night trope, the limp, the door creaking as it opens – but who, exactly, is the monster here? Apple Blossom Mick stabbed the toast into …

A short story about a skeleton, a remnant of the Napoleonic Wars, on the floor of the Caribbean Sea. He contemplates his fate. Read the complete story below, or click here to listen to it. Susannah’s Kiss The hurricane subsided off the coast of Bermuda, …