So Many What-Ifs

Fiction (in whichever form it happens to present itself)

  • The same old job

    Her phone buzzed as she left the scene …

  • The patron

    He just walked in one day …

  • Observe, preserve

    A front desk agent tries her best not to interfere in the private lives of her guests.

  • Begin

    It is early still …

  • To Protect

    The castle walls stood wide and tall / “To protect”, they said, “should villains call” / The princess in its highest keep / “To protect”, they said, “our moats run deep” /

  • Ghost town

    It’s been a while since he’s gone out / To the small town, a little south / From where he settled down alone / Self-sufficient, his food home-grown …

  • Alignment

    The ground beneath your feet starts to rumble. Softly at first, but rapidly increasing in intensity, the tremors shaking you to your core, growing ever more violent, until you start to worry that you’ve made a grave error and are about to be swallowed whole and devoured by the earth.

  • The what?!

    You’ve been in this queue for a long time, and you don’t even know why. (You’re also not entirely sure how you got here in the first place, but you’ve got the feeling that the answer to that question would upset you in more ways than one, so you tell yourself that everything is fine.)