The Grandlings sit one on each arm of your favourite chair,
You tell stories and sing songs.
Squeaky childhood voices learning and playing and imagining.
The world the whole world is open to their amazing minds.
Arm Chair
Science Fiction
The Time Traveler’s Scheme: Chapter 12
This is the next installment in our serialized story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme, in which Daeva is steal children in order to form a loyal army, and Melina and Gravity want to stop her. In the last section, we saw Gravity explaining that they believe Jeffrey Jamison, one of the stolen children, may have escaped…
The Time Traveler’s Scheme: Chapter 11
This is the eleventh installment in our ongoing serial story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme. In the previous section, Daeva and Tinsley discovered that space-time was breaking apart, and Melina, now completing her Ph.D., learned a little more about a mysterious stranger named Gravity, who came from the future. To read this story from the beginning,…
The Time Traveler’s Scheme: Chapter 9 – Crack
This is the ninth installment in our ongoing serial story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme. In the previous section, Daeva and Tinsley discovered they were now wanted by some future space-time authority for their attempts in changing the timeline. Melina, now completing her Ph.D., encountered a mysterious stranger who has some unbelievable news. To read this…
The Time Traveler’s Scheme: Chapter 8 – Rumble
This is the eighth installment in our ongoing serial story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme. In the previous section, we saw Daeva dealing with some of the unforeseen consequences of kidnapping Camille Winton, while the past was beginning to believe Melina Penrose may have been telling the truth about Jeffrey Jamison’s disappearance. To read this story…
Horror
The Door in the Cellar
The following is a guest post by Ryan Reid. Ryan is earning an MSW degree in the school of social work at Aurora University. He is an aspiring author working on a young-adult horror novel. “Tell me a scary story, Grandpa Seth,” Jeff Slater told his grandfather. It was a snowy January night. Jeff and his…
The Poor Boy in His Grave
The room was cold and sterile. Quincy had never been in a police station before. He was nervous. There was a video camera in the corner above the door, and a mirror to his left. The only furniture in the room was a square metal table and four metal chairs; one of which Quincy occupied….
The Unmerciful Servant
Larry ushered the anxious woman into his office and noted with satisfaction the calming effect its caramel walls, photos of ocean and mountain scapes, fake orchids, and soft music had on her. He sat behind the wide desk. “Now, Mrs. Smith, it looks from my paperwork here that you have missed three, no four,…
Fatter by Derek Ailes
Billy Bullock stood by the registers flirting with two short, thin blonde cashiers he worked with at Mega-Mart in Valparaiso, Indiana. He was an ordinary average guy with short, black hair and a medium build. He wasn’t handsome, but he wasn’t ugly either. Using his flirtation techniques learned from a webinar he watched on YouTube,…