Short stories you can read while you wait for your coffee to brew, your bus to arrive, your commercial break to end. Meant to be fun, silly, maybe even daring. Enjoy!
Fast Fiction: Sister Knows Best
As soon as Maeve entered the gymnasium, a pulse of energy shot through her body as if she’d been shocked with a bolt of lightning. Here she was — her senior prom. The last dance of high school, and her last opportunity to tell Mick how she felt about him before they went their separate…
Fast Fiction: My Best Friend Astrid
When I tell people Astrid is my best friend, they often look at me funny. Maybe raise their eyebrows, or give me a crooked smile and a half-laugh. But it’s true. She’s my best friend. Ever since that day in third grade when a group of fifth grade boys threw me down on the hard,…
Fast Fiction: The Dog Named Kitty
Short excerpt from a fictional short story I’m working on. Enjoy! The dog named Kitty was Anise’s idea, naturally. She had been requesting a furry companion daily by then, and who was Louis to deny his dying wife the joy of a man’s best friend? Louis himself had never been a dog person, has never…
Paige Gardner 