The Ten Best Stories You Haven’t Read
Disclaimer: they’re all mine.
I’m not going to lie to you: my fiction actually does better read-wise than most anything else I’ve shared on this platform, but the only real ones to knock it out of the park are the, er, steamier renditions of tales. Sure, I can write smut every so often, but it gets a bit stale just focusing on it.
In the early days when I first started sharing short fiction, I tended to write down things that bothered me — or images that I couldn’t quite shake.
One example is “The Night of Unexpected Guests,” which takes a strained marriage into some monstrous territory. Mainly, I just wanted to write about the in-laws who made things a bit more…interesting when they appeared.
I have also played around dystopian fiction a lot this year, but my first attempt on here was a quiet one — almost an allegorical response to how our own world’s pandemic went. The sickness in “The Victorious Few” is not really explained in grand terms, but the fear came from a real place in my own life.
