A young man gets a glimpse into the literal and figurative top of society and finds it wanting.
Short Stories
Short works of fiction
Short Story
Best Left Silent
A girl whose father makes the dark unsafe tries to find normality in the light.
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Shards of Memory
A man ruined by the Depression makes one final grasp at the life he once led.
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The Titanium Man
One week with an android.
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Retirement
A character study of a resident of an assisting living facility.
Short Story
A Tragedy in Two Parts
Sitting on a brick wall, a girl struggles with rejection and with her identity.
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Icicles
Is it inattention from others that makes us vague and distant? A scene from a restaurant.
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Mother Tongue
Jinku stays by her dying mother’s side nine weeks, then finds a stack of journals written in her mother’ native tongue, a language in which she only ever heard her mother speak two words.
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Spinster
“She politely declines, preferring to spend her days in the soft sunlight, arranging the weary roses…” Inspired by the poem by Sylvia Plath.
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In Arms
A young mother fights to overcome her hopelessness and make sense of the terror surrounding her, in the midst of a Maoist civil war in the writer’s home country.