The iceberg breaking hull was a master chef’s knife, wasted and gliding deftly through calm, buttery arctic waters. Clouds were pulling themselves apart and winter’s night sky constellations shone torchlights across scattered icebergs safely in the shadowy distance. This polar expedition passed quietly as the crew laid slumber and the captain handed over the night’sContinue reading “A Captain’s Compass North “
Category Archives: flash fiction
The Haunting of Mr. Query
The Haunting of Mr. Query, a gothic tale by Paul Carreo It was an autumn of lamentations, the day I broke my fell stare from pale rain-blurred windows. My name is Franklin Arthur Query of the House of Query, the last of my line. I was spending my waning days scratching at the bones ofContinue reading “The Haunting of Mr. Query”
The Hermit and the Bear
The Hermit and the Bear, a shorter fiction parable Once upon a time, there lived an old hermit in the wilderness of a deep forest who was tormented every night by a surly, burly old grizzly bear. Every evening, the bear would make her rounds to the man’s small cabin on a sunny clearing fromContinue reading “The Hermit and the Bear”
