by hidayat | Jun 30, 2022 | Short Stories
(Pronounced Ma·qua·pair·nee) The hospital kitchen was abuzz with activity when Elmarie entered it. Numerous chefs and sous chefs were all assiduously busy with preparing lunch for the hospital patients. Although the kitchen was awash in the delicious aroma of cooking...
by hidayat | Jun 30, 2022 | Short Stories
Ronelle was smitten with it the minute she and Leonard pulled up into its driveway. Because the house was nestled snugly between two towering, thriving oaks covered in shiny, green leaves, set slightly back from the road, the couple hadn’t been able to get a full view...
by hidayat | Jun 30, 2022 | Short Stories
Prete swaggered as he entered the apartment. He looked at the lanky black man reading, seated in a plush recliner. “Not bad accommodations for a cell, is it, Lightbringer?” Prete asked Cole who slowly rose from the chair. “A cell is still a prison, no matter how...
by hidayat | Jun 30, 2022 | Short Stories
Leonora was livid with fury. “Keisha grabbed at a straw, Minister, and he has no power whatsoever to change the course of this war,” she nearly spat out her words, only remembering at the last second to adopt a subservient tone. Minister Prete had killed others for...
by hidayat | Jun 30, 2022 | Short Stories
An icy breeze cut straight through Cole’s jacket. He glanced down from the top of the lighthouse at the surf pounding the beach. A strange, prescient sensation wrapped itself tightly around the black, lanky twenty-six-year old, as if trying to dispel the physical cold...
by hidayat | May 27, 2022 | Short Stories
Gavin stared at the scrap of paper as if it were a slice of gold. He looked around furtively to ascertain if anybody else in the Funds Office happened to be looking at him, but nobody was paying him any attention. Gavin failed to see Justin staring at him with a deep...
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