Hiking in the Wilderness

Dave was regretting his heady behaviour last night, and groaned as he forced himself out of bed, reaching immediately for a bottle of water, and grimacing when he flicked on the lantern. Getting up before sunrise was difficult enough without the added challenge difficulty from having a hangover, but this was what was necessary if …

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Finding Recruits

It was drizzling the evening that Zach Kane, investigative journalist, visited the carnival, so he tucked his camera further inside his beige trench coat, and tugged his black fedora a little lower on his forehead. Despite the rain, there was still a decent crowd enjoying the various games and amusements, which meant that Zach was …

Frog Leg Soup

This story was co-written with one of my tutoring students, Gage. Enjoy our combined chaotic and wacky humour in this story. The deck chairs huddled together, plotting their revenge. There was a frog who liked eating chairs, and it enjoyed them so much it ate them every day. The surviving chairs soon realized that they …

Zach Kane and The Handmaiden

This story is a precursor to The Detective and the Damsel, and introduces how these two characters began to be in regular contact with each other. Zach Kane, investigative journalist, was frustrated. He had exhausted all available leads for his current case, but still hadn’t solved it.   There was an unopened letter with ZK written in …

The Detective and the Damsel

A figure in a long, black leather trench coat, face bent and shrouded in shadow, slipping in and out of sight behind the conveniently parked trucks that blocked the view of the sidewalk, quietly approached the newspaper office, and despite the fact that it was well after the posted working hours, entered it with ease.   …

Viona

Viona didn’t remember much of her early life. She’d never had a father to speak of, and her mother worked quite a lot. They lived in a small home on the edge of the reasonably priced residential section of the city. Her mother taught her to read and would take her to visit the library …

Experiments and Consequences

The young gnome checked the time on the pendulum clock, which finally indicated that it was seven o’clock in the evening, then left his dorm room and purposefully strode across the wizarding university’s campus to his mentor’s office, impatiently rapped on the door, and once invited inside, wasted no time in declaring, “My magical experiment …

Golden Hope

His hacking cough echoed in the mine tunnel. He set down his pickaxe and waited for the dust to settle, instead using his empty hands to pull up his grimy shirt to cover his mouth, serving as a makeshift air filter. When the air seemed a bit less hazy in the light of his lantern, …

Cows vs. Aliens

This story was co-authored with Gage, one of my tutoring clients. He requested that for this story, I write each of my sentences trying to accomplish the goals of the aliens, and that he would in turn write each of his sentences trying to accomplish the goals of the cows. His sentences are italicized. Gage …

A State of Flux

It was that fleeting hour of day when the moon and sun are height and bright at the same time. Like many things in my life, these summer nights wouldn’t last much longer. I sat quietly on a sun bleached driftwood log, watching as the waves washed over my toes. I closed my eyes, trying …