Tag: Short Story
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High Enough!
Breathlessly, the woman in the blue tweed suit looked up toward the next level. “This is high enough for me,” she announced to a passing child and her mother “I’m not going up there!” They both held onto the rail and carried on upwards, watching the woman as she laughed rambunctiously. The woman looked down…
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Catching Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725 – 1798). Ish. Picture the scene. It’s the mid-eighteenth century. We’re in Italy; Venice, actually. The Carnival is coming to its close. Noble folk (and lesser-noble for that matter!) are all partying like it’s 1999. All are dressed in elaborate clothing, wearing stunning full masks, some with head-dresses made out of the…
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Miss McRee’s Permanently Single
Permanently SINGLE DATING AGENCY Confidential memo to all staff Numbers are down, people. All the single people seem to be going somewhere else. We need them on our books. How can we make sure that they remain single if they go to other agencies? We need their funds, people. When numbers are down our funds…
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And they say romance is dead
Old Mal creaked and groaned as he leant forward in his dusty old chair. He was bent completely double with his arm out-stretched as far as he could, but he still couldn’t reach it. He muttered something inaudible. “What’s that you say?” Ornelle, his wife, glanced up and over at him from her dusty chair.…
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Foreigners: 3
He watched as the waiter handed the woman a menu. She stood and followed the waiter over to her table. He decided it was now time for him to go home. She pointed to the photo of the ‘Best Burger This Side Of The Milky Way’. He glanced around the room one more time before…
The Mansionic Perspective 