Slow Stories

In the 80's, John was looking to go some place no one would know him. He was not planning on starting his new life with a 14 year old girl. She and her friends keep his life anything but mundane, despite his best intentions to keep it that way at his new home. Codes will change as story progresses.

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.

Cory Wilkinson comes home to find his sister lost in the throws of passion with her boyfriend. That, and the frustrations of dealing with his own girlfriend, make him realize that the connection he and his sister once had is now missing. Read how the events of this one day changed that oversight. Edited from original version and re-posted.

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.

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.