In my defense of my fear of spiders.

From the Chronicles of Parker Envoy
Parker pressed his head against his daddy’s arm on the overstuffed coach as the weather man foretold the future on the TV. “Cloudy with a chance of sun, but storm clouds heading this way.” Parker didn’t care. He was just glad his daddy was here, now. It had been days [...]

I wrote this short story for the Bloom or DOOM contest with a limit of 500 words. I’ve reformatted it here, but tried to keep to the original 500 word limit, which is no easy task for a short story. I found using a script format enabled me to cut out a lot of “he [...]

This short story was originally a Toastmaster speech assignment to tell an original short story. Part of the assignment was to make the story appropriate for the audience, and since I knew I was in the minority in the club with regards to my taste in science fiction and fantasy, I decided to tell a [...]