Barry's published ficlets
-
Poker
Joanne loved playing poker with her friends.
They played for dimes but it was the side bets that made it all worth it. These…
-
Righteousness Taken A Bit Too Far
Cicadas will rarely cross a veranda unless invited, which is pretty nutty when you think about it. I mean, how does a life fo…
-
Mating Season
The tree frogs were at it. Croaking and mating, mating and croaking, keeping Vince awake. Nothing to do but and wait for them…
-
Tough Love
You want to know where the bodies are buried?
Ask the ostiary.
You want to know the nature of the clandestine liasons slith…
-
Pinch Me
His complexion had a caesious pall to it. His skin was clammy and he was always coughing. But he was good in bed. That’s why …
-
Spoils Of War
The whelp had actually worked up the nerve to propose! What now? She had no other prospects, none worth considering anyway. T…
-
Hormones Win Every Time
To Max sage was an herb, not a state of mind. So when the men in the funny hats arrived to declare him The Next Perfect Maste…
-
The Barney Conspiracy
Sara hadn’t heard from her brother in days, since before Barney, the larcenous old catchpole, had come hunting.
Jeff was in …
-
Three Weeks On Toilet Water
The cat never really liked Arthur. He only tolerated Arthur because of the food he provided. However the cat had decided to k…
-
Abandon
Arthur took a notion one day and just walked off his job. Simple as that. Got in his car and headed for the coast. Got lucky …
-
Memorial Day
Memorial day and Sara was with family again, following the lead that Michael had started years ago. She didn’t mind having th…
-
Therapy
Mandy loses her damn mind every time she watches Tom Jones perform…. literally. Enjoys it actually. Her family noticed it b…
-
A Little Misunderstanding
Frankie died composing a sonnet to his mistress. Keeled over of a stroke caused by a small blood vessel bursting somewhere de…
-
Debt
Lou had decided it was time to ask his girlfriend to marry him. Only she was dead.
Doable.
Only he didn’t have the credits …
-
Diplomacy
Sandra was convinced that the spiders in her home had organized. Worse, they had an agenda. Naturally she didn’t tell anyone,...
-
Amy
Amy worried about the sounds coming from her father’s bathroom. They didn’t seem, well, natural. Daddy always joked about g…
-
Dead Sprint
Renee briefly considered homicide before realizing that she had less than 3 minutes for a 5-minute trek to her next class. S…
-
Clara
Allegedly, any advanced enough form of technology will be indistinguishable from magic. Consider what an individual from the …
18
1
2
