Short Stories

Nero’s deep slumber was abruptly and unceremoniously wrecked by a most distinctly redolent aroma. The Siamese cat raised his head slightly from Beulah’s luxuriously comfortable lap. “Oops, I beg your pardon, Nero,” Beulah apologised to the feline, her cheeks burning...

Raeefah took great pride in her large, sunlit, modern kitchen. It took nearly a year and a half to have the building contractors complete the room to her exacting and exact specifications. “The kitchen is the heart of any home,” Raeefah had told her husband, Noor,...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Danté fell instantly for Joshua the minute he walked into the seminar venue. His fair skin only accentuated the mole perched slightly above the left corner of his kiss-me-please pink upper lip. Danté’s knees turned to wobbly jelly when Joshua smiled at the group; it...

I am careful to sneak very discreetly into the apple orchard. Although I had been visiting the gardens for about six years now, since I was eleven years old and had run away from my abusive stepmom and her endless stream of lovers, many of whom thought I came with the...