Order in Chaos An audible #glow of cascading moonlight surrounded her. It emitted a siren call of come hither- never have I heard a more irresistible song. Together we disintegrated like hoar frost vaporized in the morning sun, becoming Chaos, Order, Everything and Nothing all at once. We lay quietly, gazing at stars. “Do […]
Rural Fantasy
by ima erthwitch
One Man’s Trash, a #vss365 #twitterfiction story
One Man’s Trash I vented out loud as I tossed another rock. How can something be both blessing and #curse? “Easy,” the old man said. “It’s all about perception. Like treasure and trash.” He patted his ancient rock wall and nodded toward my rock pile to illustrate his point. “I spent a #fair bit […]
Ice Snakes
Ice snakes Amy ordered ice cleats the other day. We laughed about that. She never goes outside. Not even in winter because there might be snakes. Ice snakes come out in winter. They hide under the snow and you can’t see them at all until all you see are the little glassy red eyes. By […]
Grapevine
If I had given more thought to the matter, to the infrastructure of this … arrangement … I might have avoided my current predicament. The insidious creep disguised himself in the seductive beauty of light and form. Then began the slow displacing of my own welfare, exchanged for the needs of another. It seemed symbiotic initially. […]
At the Gate
I realize what I’m telling you is hard to believe. But it all came together last night, while I was closing the gate, telling the trees goodbye. Everything made perfect sense. Not that I like it, you know, but it fits. The land is sentient. It knows. It plans. It executes. That’s the scary part. […]
Rousing the Volcano – Twitter fiction
Rousing the Volcano is a Twitter fiction story by @erthwitch in response to the #vss365 prompt on Twitter by @flashdogs. To find out more about what these hashtag things mean, read my post about Twitter fiction. Rousing the Volcano Why stroke the flames when she could rouse the volcano instead? She’d leave more in […]