The Swords of the Ancients

Microfiction! Allow me to present, for your enjoyment, a small collection of small stories. Most of these are under the 500 word mark, and have been created for various writing challenges. Others are just little things that popped into my head and managed to make it to a Word file or notebook. Enjoy!

Writing Challenge Entries

• Terrible Minds 2/9/18: Subroutines
• Terrible Minds 5/6/16: Still Turnstiles at Station 6
• Terrible Minds 4/15/16: Orchard After
• Terrible Minds 4/8/16: The Dragon
• Terrible Minds 5/15/15: Detroit Dream
• Terrible Minds 3/13/15: The River and the Gods
• Terrible Minds 4/4/14: The Casket
• Trifextra Week 105: Farewell
  
• Trifecta Week 114: Satisfy
• Trifextra Week 104: Palindrome
• Trifecta Week 113: Promises To Keep
• Trifextra Week 103: That Wasn’t What I Meant
• Trifextra Valentine’s Day Edition
• Trifextra Week 101: The Café
• Trifecta Week 109: Whatever
• Trifecta Week 104: Companion
• Trifextra Week 94: Necessity
• Trifecta Week 102: Craft
• Trifextra Week 91: Seeing is Believing
• Trifecta Week 99: Babushka
• Terrible Minds 10/4/13: The Apocalypse Mechanism
• Trifecta Week 97: Stranded
• Trifecta Week 96: Animal
• Trifecta Week 91: The Brand
• Trifextra Week 79: Shadows
• Trifecta Week 88: Travelers
• Trifecta Week 86: The Crack
• Trifextra Week 75: Recollection
• Trifecta Week 82: The Rough Draught
• Trifecta Week 81: Light
• Trifecta Week 78: Pedantic
• Trifecta: The Librarian
• Trifecta: Ecstasy
• Terrible Minds 4/5/13: The Secret Door
• Terrible Minds 3/29/13: Grave
• Trifecta (Trifextra Week 60)
• Terrible Minds 3/22/13: They Fight Crime
• Terrible Minds 2/22/13: Shambhala 
• Terrible Minds 2/15/13: Before the Dawn 
• October 2012: Hallowe’en 
• April/May 2012: First Impressions and Famous Last Words 
• March 2012: What Price Happiness? 
• January 2012: Non-Euclidean 
• October/November/December 2011: Masks 
• September 2011: The Library 
• August 2011: A Ball of Light in One’s Hand 
• July 2011: The Tale of the Sun and Moons Part II 
• June 2011: Finding His Way 
• May 2011: Fiction or Non? 
• April 2011: The Tale of the Sun and Moons Part I 
• March 2011: Hearing 

D&D Character Backstories

• Character Backstory #1: Jack 
• Character Backstory #2: Jetsam 
• Character Backstory #3: Alexi 

Other Pieces

• Do You Still Dream?
• 100 Words
• Trans-Planetary Express
• Asteroid Blues
• Stray Dog Strut
• Honky Tonk Women
• The Door
• Cooper
• Memorial
• Nightmare
• My Shadow

Poetry

• 3:40 AM
• Leap Day
• A Wish
• Epiphany
• Hallowe’en
• My Truth
• For Wodan, On Your Second Birthday
• But From a Friend
• You Say You Want a Poem
• Winter Wheat
• Chill
• Vision
• A Chance Meeting
• Clouds
• We Are the Meteor
• Stargaze
• An Invitation: A Vampire Haiku
• Fort
• Magnetic Poetry Round #5
• Visit
• Loss
• When the Sea Meets the Sky
• The Immortal Question
• Isn’t It?
• Winter
• Paths
• Magnetic Poetry Round #4
• Want
• Magnetic Poetry Round #3
• Camera
• Magnetic Poetry Round #2
• I Feel You
• The Girl Who Smelled Of Pine
• She Too, Wonders Why
• Consequences
• Library: A National Library Week Poem
• An Update and a Poem (aka Magnetic Poetry Round #1)
• A Dream
• I Know That This is Not the End of the World
• When I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice
• Come Walk With Me Beneath the Stars
• And So Begins The Long Night
• Pretend
• Come Seek Me
• Go Where There Is No Map
• Tonight
• Footsteps
• Life
• Rainy Days
• Blackout Poetry
• Gravity
• Eternity
• The End of Winter
• Rain
• Rescue
• Guardian 
• One Bright April Day 
• Mountaintops 
• Dog
• Silence