stuff I wrote a long time ago
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The Cruise
Reading Time: ~10 minutes The boat set sail early in the morning, on a summer day. Mark boarded it first. His wife, Linda, followed. The children came last, jostling each other other in their excitement. “Stop that,” Mark said to them, embarrassed. They either didn’t hear or him or ignored him. Tom pushed Alice and…
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The Elevator
Reading Time: ~5 minutes Available at http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-elevator-by-blaise-lucey/.
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The Mirror is Not a Window for the Soul
Reading Time: ~10 minutes Harold’s wife is cheating on him. He knows it. It’s obvious. She gets home later than usual. It’s happened for a few months. Her excuse is that the newspaper has had to fire some copy editors, so now the reporters have to look over their own articles. It takes a few…
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The Death of Gabriel Johnson, Monarch of Pop
Reading Time: ~10 minutes Richard Ames was a man whose every move indicated violence. A man whose powerful aura made rooms swell and stick. People whispered around this ominous, heavy, suffocating force whenever it flooded their presence. No one wanted to be in a small room with him and no one wanted to be in…
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The Carnival
Reading Time: ~5 minutes The carnival is on the beach. An ugly parking lot has been penned in by chain-link fences. Inside the cage, there is a carousel. There is a merry-go-round. There is one water slide, one fun house, three galleries where you throw things, and one errant clown. The rest of the clowns…
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Heartbeat Revelations
Reading Time: ~20 minutes There was a street somewhere in a suburban town in the Northeast of the United States. It was crowded by trees and punctuated by houses. The people of these lonely houses inflated their tiny lives into bubbles that bloomed to capture anything nearby. Since the world was rudely unconcerned with their…
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