Author: David

  • Aliens

    Aver­age fam­i­ly stay­ing in a 1‑star hotel when the alien inva­sion hap­pens. They knew going to flori­da for the hol­i­days was a bad idea.

  • Bus to hell

    He left his soul on the bus, and now he is rac­ing against the dev­il to get it back.

  • Wedding

    It was on her wed­ding night, as they con­sum­mat­ed their vows and she saw the face out the win­dow, that she realised she had mar­ried the wrong stalk­er.

  • Dog monster

    Love brought clos­er togeth­er when they had bought the pup­py. Guilt brought them even clos­er when they acci­den­tal­ly let the dog devour and digest the neigh­bours kid. Fear brought them clos­er still when they realised they might be next on the menu.

  • Lifeboat

    With only one space left in the life boat he had to chose between the man he lust­ed after, and the woman he loved.

  • Sparkler

    In a world where the only truth is fear. The one will­ing to hold a sparkler is a wiz­ard.

  • Tagline

    For­ev­er christ­mas: what if San­ta came every day? — Writ­ing Prompt: Come up with an eight-word tagline for your nov­el or short sto­ry. It needs to be pithy, punchy, mem­o­rable, and eas­i­ly com­pre­hen­si­ble.

  • Holiday

    The peo­ple had lived under­ground for so long that all of the old cher­ished tra­di­tions from the sur­face had fad­ed, warped, mutat­ed and evolved over the mil­len­nia. Cel­e­brat­ed every oth­er sev­enth year an per­son was required to sub­mit to ‘the dai­ly recon’. On this day you have to tal­ly up all the gifts you have…

  • Not the life your looking for?

    His whole life had been a lie. Most­ly to him­self.

  • Factory Story – Part 6

    1:23 AM Tues­day, 25th Octo­ber 2011 Nate was alone, stand­ing on the foot­path out­side of his apart­ment build­ing, con­fused and unsure of him­self or of the future. He slow­ly walked up the three flights of stairs. His con­fu­sion was most­ly caused by feel­ings he had nev­er felt before and did­n’t know the right names of.…