Category Archives: shortstory
-
The Agreement
Leave a commentNovember 22, 2025 by dleecox
White Kitty surveyed the landscape. This is mine. I should like to eat something squishy. Not the crackers what my …
Continue reading -
The Small Shiny Things With Heft
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2025 by dleecox
Charles Schuster, a widower, called his only daughter “Cupcake.” Flush with money he made in electric insulators, Charles sent her …
Continue reading -
Reunion
2October 19, 2024 by dleecox
she pulled off the asphalt onto the drive, the wheels of her candy apple red mercedes angrily crushing the chirt. …
Continue reading -
Je suis allé
Leave a commentJune 16, 2020 by dleecox
His father had been in the Navy during the Viet Nam conflict. Soon after he was born, the family transferred …
Continue reading -
Earlybirds Get the Good Stuff
Leave a commentJune 16, 2020 by dleecox
“Hey!” he said, stepping in too close to her. “Whatcha wont fer that carpet right there?” He smelled of basement …
Continue reading -
The Rowanshire Barrow
Leave a commentJune 16, 2020 by dleecox
Miranda Austin walked into the poorly lit pub on a mission. A photojournalist for Citizen Earth, she was up against …
Continue reading -
You Never Know – cont.
2October 7, 2018 by dleecox
This piece uses very course language and indecent, obscene, imagery. If you are easily offended, please stop now. I’ve had …
Continue reading -
As a Matter of Fact, You Are Innocent
2July 9, 2017 by dleecox
Eighty years ago it was passed – the Universal Justice Act. If, within a defined statute of limitations the …
Continue reading -
Egotistic Mania
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2017 by dleecox
He said, “I’m OK if you don’t want to believe in God or Jesus or the Holy Catholic church – …
Continue reading -
The Hobo Oracle of Monte Sano Mountain – Prelude
Leave a commentMay 8, 2017 by dleecox
A Plea About twenty or so years after he left, Virgil Sanders came to visit. I didn’t ask him to …
Continue reading
Stealth Genius 