So Many What-Ifs

Fiction (in whichever form it happens to present itself)

  • In the Moment

    My Round 1 entry for the NYC Midnight Rhyming Challenge 2025.

  • Papaya

    Below you’ll find my (unedited) entry for Round 1 of the NYC Midnight Rhyming Story Challenge 2024. My assignment was: Genre: RomanceTheme: Put out to pastureEmotion: Happy “We always knew the time would cometo say goodbye to dear old Tom!For forty years this was your life,alas, you couldn’t find a wife!Tonight we’re gonna send you…

  • The same old job

    Her phone buzzed as she left the scene …

  • The patron

    He just walked in one day …

  • Begin

    It is early still …

  • 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.)