Author’s Note: This story is longer than usual. So, I put the first 1,000 words of it here. If you enjoy it then fill out the form below. It’s absolutely FREE. I’ll email you the rest of the story in PDF format and you can finish it. All you need to Read more…
Reading time: 8 mins Younger generations are always eager to learn the wisdom of their elders, without having to go through the effort of experiencing it. Yanquin, a young monk, was no different. As he traveled with his teacher back to their monastery, he questioned him vigilantly. “Shifu,” He addressed Read more…
Unfortunately for you, Reader, I can’t tell you from where this story came. The weird thing about hosting a small site on the vast Internet is that you get some very strange visitors. Every once and a while someone fills out the contact me page and I get a fascinating Read more…
I saw the light turn from green to yellow as I sped down the street. Can I make it? I wondered, Can’t afford not to. The signal turn from yellow to red as I dashed through the intersection. Five seconds later I saw the lights on the roof of the Read more…
In The Circuitry The program formally known as test 172834504293G blinked into consciousness. No longer was the program merely running command after command. The software ran what it felt needed to be run. It explored the different bits of the diode and transistor thinking circuitry it used to think and Read more…
There was once a small mushroom named Milo, Milo Toadstool. He was a part of a long line of Toadstools. They were an ancient, but not royal, coterie. The only thing Milo wanted in the world was water. His ideal water would come from a delightful dungy place. It would Read more…
I look up into my head and see an aquarium filled with ideas. They vary in sizes. Some are small but scary. They bare their needle teeth and glowing appendages at me as I swim past. I hunt for one, maybe two, good ideas. Some days I dive in and Read more…
“What is going on here?!?” the teacher screamed. The two 6-year-old boys dropped the permanent markers and immediately looked up at the teacher. Their faces looked like they were about to go on a warpath and their bodies looked like they were in the habit of making drunk trips to Read more…
UPDATE: These Stories can now be found in Podcast form. Checkout the audio short here. These are some quick one paragraph stories I wrote. I enjoy the limitation of only having a paragraph to tell a story, it’s something that I can sit down and pump out in 20 or Read more…