Category: Microfiction

The pupil constricts as the arc of a rainbow hits it in the sunlight. The pupil dilates in the night devoid of moon, stars, and city lights. The schizophrenic rattles the pills around in the bottle. The attendant watches her take one out and put it in her mouth. She shoves it into the side…

Three feet from your person, the man, who crawled like an animal, stands without aid. Caked in the dust from which God made man, he runs to you and claws with overgrown nails like those of a lion at your priestly robes of blue linen topped by an apron of purple and scarlet interwoven with…

He trudged through fresh snow from an overnight storm, heavy steel toe boots creating new footprints back up the path, ladder and natural gas in tow. Tracks dotted the snow ahead, inhuman, two distinct sets. The heart-shaped hooves of a single deer crisscrossed the path. Large paws followed in a straight line, whether canine or…