Category: Short Stories

  • The Mouse at Sea

    The cat could see a mouse floating on a piece of wood in the sea. He couldn’t wait to meet this little morsel – a piece of meat was all he could think. “Come here,” he shouted aloud to the little mouse. “Let me save you.” Given his predicament, the mouse allowed that maybe the…

  • The Shattering of Worlds

    This micro story was published in the University of Phoenix’s College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Newsletter.   Lauren opens the package and smiles. Another globe for the collection, this one yellow on a brass mount, carefully packaged in bubble wrap. She gently takes it out of the box, spotting the card tucked beneath.…

  • A Fonder Heart

    This micro story was published in the University of Phoenix’s College of Humanities and Sciences 2nd Quarter Newsletter.   People always told me that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I never believed them. When someone was absent for me, I forgot they existed. I would move on. That morning when the news report…

  • Just a Storm

    This micro story was published in the University of Phoenix’s College of Humanities and Sciences 1st Quarter Newsletter. It was a dark and stormy night, and Laura couldn’t stop shaking. Light sparked across the sky in a streak of lightning, followed with a crash of thunder that rattled the windows of her small home. The…