Short Fiction

The Girl Ruby-Doux — Another Slightly Creepy Bedtime Story

In the heart of Manhattan, a girl lives with her mother. The child’s name is Ruby Dumont, but her mother affectionately calls her Ruby-Doux. They reside in one of those iconic skyscrapers whose tops look like someone took a sharp knife to a castle in Europe and grafted it onto a high rise building.

The Black Ooze — Another Slightly Creepy Bedtime Story

It’s been night for a while. The girl can’t seem to fall asleep. She kicks the sheets off her small body, her night clothes sticking to her. She’s hot, sweaty. She draws a wheezy breath, getting ready to call out into the dark room toward the direction of the tall window, looming in the corner at one end of the long wall. She’s done it before: called out the names of the people she holds dear. But the window is always closed and nobody can hear her. Yet the urge returns every night.