The Dailyish Writer

Sandra’s quivering hand rose slowly to the awaiting switch. The bulbs around her room flickered softly when she finally did reach it. Immediately, she withdrew her touch, rubbing her hands together to create some kind of heat within her bloodless fingers. A tiny dribble of sweat condensed from nowhere, it seemed. It’s time. She shut […]

Salient green clung to a pillar of brown and gold as its foundation was obliterated at a consistent rate. Splinters and spikes shot off in spite as the tower became no more. A great creak and series of snaps before a great big CRACK and the tree fell tumbling onto the lumberjack.

The massive orchard was ablaze in the setting sun. Various fruits on the ground mocked their fiery father as they lay in the waste of one another, shining with the same vibrant color of sunsets and sunrises without emitting any light. Twigs, twisted and broken, or young and bent lay amid the roots who gripped […]

A widow walked into the supermarket, looking to buy some cookie dough. Her grandaughter’s birthday was coming up and she wanted to make something nice for her.  A sweet, sweet old woman, Mrs. Krakauer had been making sweet things for all her sweet family members and friends ever since her sweet husband had died. She […]

This is a short story I wrote a couple of months back. It isn’t the best but I think it’s good to show where I started. I look out the window as Hitchcock, my friend, my partner, my crewmate drifts off into space alone. Hitchcock. I know he’s alive in his suit, but he isn’t […]