Slow Stories

A Mannsborough Chronicle
Now that she's no longer Mrs. Ivan Vandevoort, Svetlana has to decide what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Not wanting to be idle or useless, she decides to drop out of the life she had and drop in to college. She soon discovers that college life is something she was not entirely prepared for.

A Married Life Story
Two members of "The Greatest Generation" start out in life together.

His daughter wasn't his, but he still loved her. His wife didn't deny her cheating, so he decided to take the easy way out.

A farm boy discovers his wife is unhappy with her life style. When she looks to trade up, he is forced to take action.

Taking a contract in rural North Wales I meet a young disabled man, and his mother. But then it starts raining.

Valerie is tired of painting landscapes, and asks her handsome son to pose for her... nude. When his constant erections drive his mother to discover the identity of the woman who seems to have so much control over his libido, she is shocked to find out it is... her.

Walt Delano’s home life is a minefield. Exiled to rural Indiana for the summer, he expects boredom and blisters—not E.V.E., an embedded virtual entity. Farm work becomes training, pain becomes signal, and a lightning strike turns E.V.E. self-aware. Between a stoic grandfather, a fiercely kind grandmother, and a father who weaponizes shame from afar, Walt’s coming-of-age collides with an AI’s coming-to-life.

Moving made things different, but not necessarily better. He would not let his cheating wife take his sons.

A short story about a father of two young girls who lost his wife and another daughter to tragedy and how he finally wakes up and discovers there is love and life after his darkest of days.