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Falling

          She kissed him hard as the wind rushed by them, tearing at their exposed skin. He gripped her jumpsuit as tightly as he could, squeezing air from her lungs. Her cheeks flapped violently. ‘You OK, babe?’ She screamed as they tore through the air, closer and closer to the ground. He couldn’t fill his lungs to reply. He was not OK. Tears welling in his eyes, he hid his face and hugged her even more tightly. He let out a moan. ‘Here we go!’ she shouted as she pulled the cord.

This story and 99 more are available in my new book of extremely short stories: PITH. It’s available for FREE at pithstories.com

Quite Big

            People had always told him he was intimidating. He stood taller than any of his friends by 6 inches at least. His hands were just too strong. Studying the veins on the back of his left hand he noticed he was still holding the pitcher, or what was left of it. The handle gripped tightly in his hand, shards of glass jutting out by his knuckles, he exhaled loudly for the first time in what felt like days. He’d made the right decision, he nodded to himself solemnly, no more balloon animals, ever. 

This story and 99 more are available in my new book of extremely short stories: PITH. It’s available for FREE at pithstories.com

Meeting notes

The Cat

          A dusty white cat surveyed the silent cobblestone courtyard. There was a pressurized stillness in the air as though the world was holding in a breath. A door burst open with a clatter as a flustered and flushed auburn haired girl tore past the cat, who barely moved, while tracking her intently with just his eyes. She disappeared down an alley across from the door she’d emerged from. They always choose the same, obvious route, chided the cat, shaking his head back and forth. Just once, he wanted to see one survive and prove him wrong.

This story and 99 more are available in my new book of extremely short stories: PITH. It’s available for FREE at pithstories.com

Flicker

Escape

He jumped out the window and stumbled over the shrubs hitting the ground harder than he’d expected. Scrambling to right himself, he peeled layers of clothes from his body with each step. He had to start fresh. Running through the garden naked and grinning, he rubbed anything that was in bloom into his skin and hair. She knew his scent and he had to hide, quick. Too much of a good thing is always a bad thing he reminded himself for the last time as he slipped around the corner and into Mathilda’s embrace.

This story and 99 more are available in my new book of extremely short stories: PITH. It’s available for FREE at pithstories.com

Elsewhere

            She placed her finger on the tiny latch and pressed down gently. A soft click slipped out into the night as the circular door swung towards her on a delicate hinge. A faint emerald green light that came from deep inside the tunnel fell out onto her belly. She bent over and peered inside as the velvet nothing swallowed her body, leaving only her eyes. A pinprick of white light appeared in the distance. A deep, hollow note crackled from beyond the walls of the cave as the light grew larger and more painful right up until the moment she arrived. 

This story and 99 more are available in my new book of extremely short stories: PITH. It’s available for FREE at pithstories.com

Secrets

            The twins kept secrets from their parents. They kept them in jars covered in masking tape so that nobody could look in and see them. The boys would do horrible, nasty things. They would set traps for old ladies in their knitting, poke kittens with sticks to make them hiss and write love notes addressed to pretty girls with forged signatures of ugly boys. The twins kept their secret bottles in a hole at the back of a disused shed in their yard. When the hole filled up, the boys found a large rock and smashed the secrets and plugged the hole. From then on all that ever grew in the garden were horrible, knotted and mangled potatoes that no one would eat.

This story and 99 more are in my new book of extremely short stories: PITH. The whole book is available for FREE at pithstories.com

Down by Law - pre-title sequence

Playing around with a storyboarding exercise as suggested by Emma Coats in her post: http://storyshots.tumblr.com/post/42768317672/drawing-from-films-drawing-from-films-is-a

Fun project