I can see your eyes darting. You try to play cool. You were always good at hiding your feelings. At least to others, that is. Because I have learned to pick up the signs. «I double» you say. And there is sheer silence for a moment. But I can hear 6 hearts beating faster than light, all around the table.…
Category: Short Stories
A Star For A Gift
«Bliah! This thing smells so bad! Are you sure this is what your father smokes?» The boy started coughing uncontrollably. «Sure it is! I think you are too immature for it. Give me that!» The girl grabbed the cigarette from the boy’s hand and took a big puff. Her wet lips glossed over it, leaving a layer of saliva over…
A Persistent Mind
“How can you send me over there with James! James?! Really?” She turned her palms upwards. “There are so many people in the office, Harry. Look around..” The woman turned back, presenting the people outside the room, circulating her wrists, as if revealing a magical object. Woman: “This guy cannot handle his own shoelaces, let alone a big case like…
The Street View Driver
The little snap would come up like a little bell. Every 5 seconds it would hit invariably with the accuracy of a high-level algorithmic function, developed after months and months of manufacturing, down in the tech laboratories. It would resemble the beating of a heart, pumping life to the mechanism underlying the car. The «swirling snapper» was its name among…
The Black Whale Cat
City noise had dissolved after the rainstorm. The burst had settled down, transposed into harmony, as all extreme outbreaks bring in the end. The soil was still wet and soggy and the sun shying away, stubbornly refusing to show up. All movement seemed paused and for a little bit, it felt like a deep stillness had taken over. In the…