Fictionette Stories

Things have a tendency fall apart, no matter how tightly you tie them together.

He had the power and the wealth to command any pleasure, and the result was that all life's pleasures had begun to pall.

The city only came out at noon, and no one but Tabitha could see it.

They make terrible pets, even the domesticated ones. They can't be housebroken, and they have a distressing tendency to start fires. (Friday Fictionette for March 2, 201...

The Fictionette Freebie for February, 2019. "The corporation intended them to learn as they went. They shouldn't have been surprised."

They'd have to be very good reasons. Wizards aren't generally afraid of anything... right?

"Things are going to get complicated and dangerous," Ophelia said.

The kettle is screaming. The world's the wrong shape. Something's here that shouldn't be there at all.

Witches go everywhere, and so do stories.

But of course there's no such thing as time travel.

They just demand to be told. They don't ask for my approval. They don't thank me, either.

It was her guilty secret. It was her most prized possession.

No one goes inside. No one even goes near. No one really knows why.

Just another psychic parasite, preying on my emotions.

Slip-and-fall hazards do not begin to describe the liability issues this brewpub has to negotiate.

What were Assets? What was Espionage? What was a Committee? (Friday Fictionette for February 9, 2018)

It's amazing what you can get used to. Talking animals? Whatever. But it's even more amazing what can still surprise you.

This probably isn't allowed on company time. But then, so many things aren't.

This was not how origami was supposed to behave.

Envy is where all the trouble starts.