Five Minute Stories

  • Mother

    We go to the bath houses after the healers leave us. She always likes to go…

  • Merchant

    Her booth is in an alley, back behind the dumpsters. She doesn’t like me to come…

  • Cornfield

    She’s the one to come looking for me, although today’s fight had nothing to do with…

  • Blackbirds

    They wait for me in the old churchyard, among the gravestones. Their feathers are black as…

  • Dead City

    A window is open on the second floor. Most of the doors on these buildings are…

  • Seashells

    The best time to go for seashells is right after the tide has gone out. The…

  • Sunflowers

    The sunflowers are growing already. I can see them growing all along the edge of our…

  • Crypt

    The candles are lit this time. Sometimes when he locks me down here, because I’ve spoken…

  • Snow

    The storm is on the horizon when I wake up. Low, tumbled clouds loom over the…

  • Story Keeper

    A bare bulb hangs from the ceiling. Dust ghosts around it, gold in the weak light…