Tag: short-story
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Whiteout at Silver Peak
The storm arrived faster than anyone expected.By the time the last ski lift shut down at Silver Peak Resort, the world outside had turned into a wall of white. Winds screamed against the timber walls, rattling windows and burying doors beneath drifts taller than the snowcats. No one was leaving—not tonight, not tomorrow, and probably…
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The Department of Placement
The Department of PlacementFor nearly a year, 23-year-old Maren Collins had been living in a loop—wake up, check job boards, send applications, wait for rejection. She tried everything: revising her résumé a dozen times, rewriting cover letters until the words went blurry, pleading with hiring managers, applying for positions far outside anything she studied.Yet her…
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Murder in a Small Town
In the beginning, the town said it wasn’t a murder.They said it was a terrible accident, a drunken fall in the river, a misstep on loose rock near the old mill back behind the feed store. They said the river was flooded and fast this season and any of them could’ve slipped. Except they all…
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It could happen….
Elliot was in his work truck headed back to the same location, that keeps having the same problems. They have the same broken parts with no plans on correcting issues from happening again. Sometimes he thought his job was getting redundant. He comes out to this same location 2-3 times a month because of the…
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Perfect Ingredients
Elias Moreno had been a line cook for almost fifteen years at Bella’s Hearth, a small neighborhood restaurant tucked between a laundromat and a bookstore. He wasn’t famous, didn’t chase culinary awards, and had no dreams of opening his own place.What Elias did have was an obsession — a quiet, stubborn quest to create the…
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New Mayor
When the campaign manager called and said: “You won,” Nola thought she’d be ecstatic. Instead, she just felt relieved. Her entire campaign was about restoring transparency, restoring economic fairness, restoring cooperation between City Hall and regular working people. They all said they wanted exactly that. She should have realized: Any town that loudly “wants transparency”…
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The Greenhouse the wouldnt let go
The Greenhouse That Wouldn’t Let GoDr. Elara Winslow worked in the Briarhall College greenhouse for nine years. She knew every vine, every petal, every delicate dependency on each of the plants she dedicated her life to.Or so she believed.The greenhouse sat behind the science building like a glass cathedral—humid, bright, and always buzzing softly from…
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The Ledger
Detective Marcus Dwyer had worn the badge for 22 years.Long enough to see partners retire, rookies turn seasoned, and entire precincts change leadership twice over. Long enough to make mistakes. Mistakes he never admitted.Mistakes he never atoned for.Mistakes he buried beneath paperwork, favors, and silence. But retirement has a way of shaking loose the dust.…
Saturday Afternoon 