Category Archives: Short Fiction

The story of a baby’s first swear words

“Once I had a castle, and bags of gold coins, and a hen that laid golden eggs, and a golden harp that talked. Then some Englishman climbed a beanstalk and took it all away. Now you find me with a travelling circus. Tell me, who’s the victim here?”

A tragic tale of bears and the people they eat. A misinformed lady and the man she is cheating with decide to take a vacation to the Black Forest in Germany, without any knowledge of German, bears, or poetic justice.

Young con man uses the powers of science to win the girl of his dreams.

A retelling (of sorts) of the biblical tale, in which the only son of God takes earthly form as a turtle and experiences the full extent of human depravity.