Category: short stories

Jason was really starting to regret not sitting a little bit to the left on this bench. Ever since he’d sat down, he’d felt a cold metal bolt digging itself into his backside. Unfortunately, though, this was the only spot on the damn thing where he had a full view of the hill. He wanted…

Every day was always the same for Jianping, so he thought it was a safe assumption that today would be no exception. His morning started as it always did; he woke up next to his wife on their thinly padded bed. He stood up and rolled his neck from side to side, then walked barefoot…

If you were to look up right now, you’d see two cranes disappear behind a grey cloud. You wouldn’t, however, see those cranes dangling some rather heavy bundles from their beaks, and that they were none too happy about it, either. “I don’t know what to tell you, man, I think this one’s broken,” the…