monsters – Page 7 – Tale Told

An Interruption

I sat in my cell, cold and tired. The little straw cot had offered me no rest nor warmth, and I had returned to my writing desk. It had been…

Dragon Drabble

The dragon was small, so we put it in a bottle, put the bottle on the shelf, and shut the door. We left the little dragon in darkness, alone on…

The Storage Units

The things that were once men were all facing the broken television. A constant hum of static entertained them, and they gathered round its light like moths. They were, I…

Proceed

The thing from the laboratory shambled upon its shaking limbs, its one, giant eye, red and inflamed, staring hatefully at me. It inflated itself, stretching its sagging skin to the…

The Beauty of the Sun

The sun came out from behind the clouds, and the dirty wet street, with its ruts full of rain, gleamed like gold. All was silent in the dead city. I…

A Scream

The spiral stair led up into the darkened room which had grown oh so very silent after that scream. I stared into those shadows above, wondering. Pricks and tingles ran…

The Boy Pan

He sits at the edge of the cliff where the dark things were long ago cast out. There the boy blows into his little reed the sweet melodies of dreams.…

Short: The Stranger in the Storm

The storm had come, and something else, a monster, unimaginable; a boneless, shifting thing had pulled itself from the seafloor. Had the storm dredged it up, or had the wind…

Short: Project Snowball

"You lied," I said. The old man in the suit said nothing. "This whole time, you've been lying. You covered it all up, didn't you?" The suit got out of…

From the Typewriter: Waiting for the Darkness

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The ancient melodies must have been born from such a precipice. Here on top of the world, I fall out my own eyes into the vast landscape below. There is…