by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story
Growing up I was told breathing fire did not make me special. I was told nothing lay beyond our walled garden worth seeing, that intruders deserved only death. The firemoon, as my father called it, shone overhead, lighting runes etched into stone walls that he...
by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story
Across countless worlds, there are forty-two originators of existence. The deity who watches over our world is like a quiet mentor who never enforces curfew, allowing us to roam free, to make our own choices without stern retribution. The others view this leniency as...
by Pat Bove | Jan 18, 2025 | A Short Story
“You know my name?” I asked. “You’re a pirate,” The Lost Boy said as he tucked his chin to his chest, fighting to hold in his tears. “Lost Boys are not to show fear. That’s what they’re told. Lost Boys fight to kill all pirates at any cost, and to die in battle with a...
by Pat Bove | Jan 17, 2025 | Absurd Flash Fiction
I’d been unemployed for five months. Don’t judge me for taking what I could get. Sure, the late hours and unsettling house visits are off-putting, but a job’s a job. It all starts like this: Job hunting usually means a daily routine of LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster,...
by Pat Bove | Jan 17, 2025 | A Short Story
Hell had fallen to the Damned. Lucifer was slain. Cain, burning with rage at humanity’s suffering, led them, promising the downfall of the gods and a new age for all. And thus, the invasion of Heaven began. I never thought that’s where I’d be. The war machine...
