Short Stories

  • Akiyoshi Walks Into The Forest

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      Akiyoshi walks into the forest. He does not turn around. Though when he hears the girl laugh he feels the pull of it and stops, thinking “this is it, I will turn back because of this.” Her laughter catches in the branches and hangs there for a moment like a bird you cannot see

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  • Ten Stories High

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    ONE Somewhere out there, someone else is sitting at a window, thinking the same thing. It was probability. All those people, packed in tight together. Experiencing the same things, at the same time, in the same place. Some of them were going to start thinking the same. Collective consciousness. He’d read about that someplace. Most

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  • The Return To Heaven

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    The Return To Heaven This story was first published by Visual Verse in 2014. You can read it over there or listen to me read it for you.   Podcast music via FreeSFX

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  • Eastern Transept

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    You can listen to John Severity read my story over at the Mash Stories Soundcloud Podcast   The morning sun filtered through the window of the eastern transept, light falling on the nave like a ray of gold that had descended from the heavens. No doubt they had planned for it. Had configured their measurements

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