Last Request
I have no idea where this story came from. I sat down and started to write and this is what came out. And I love it. It’s dark, vague, and feels like the beginning of something…
Asunder
Time for a blast from the past. (How I hate that phrase, and yet I’ve inflicted it on you. Deplorable, but kind of funny.) Late last year I gave you a 100-word flash fiction piece that revisited…
Karma’s Bite
This story is (weirdly) for a friend, (kind of) by request. I was writing it with two prompts: the one included below, and one conveyed through a private conversation with my friend about a frustrating…
Pearls Before Swine
Sorry for this week’s lateness. Life, huh? It happens. This feels more like the outline of a story than an actual story. Really, that’s what it is. No single idea is explored enough. Add it…
The Creepers
I’m not sure where the seed of this story originated. The idea found me this morning and I’ve been playing with it off and on, until about 45 minutes ago when I actually sat down…
Passage
This weeks flash fiction is a short 100-worder. Though I wrote it fast, I like it. It feels to me like there’s a lot more to the story, and that’s a nice feeling in something…
Karma
This past week, I was talking to a friend about why I like this character. Part of my affinity for the unnamed assassin is that he has a moral code. It’s a fucked up moral…
Background
Whereas most of the stories in The Assassin Diaries are more or less stand alones, this one picks up where the last one left off. (If you haven’t read ‘Cardinal Sin‘, I recommend getting on…
Marionette
Everyone’s heard the idiom: “If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” Most of us think it’s true. I think it’s bullshit. I have a former professor to thank for that. He called…