Maybe Great

Sign in Subscribe

One Page Stories

A Gathering

Around the table, an ancient ritual has commenced. Chanting names and words of the Old Gods, the crowds observed the center of attention - a young woman walking through a corridor of rejoiced smiles. The woman walked with dignity and pride, but on the inside inadvertently nervous. "Steady pace

Why Not?

Glorious are the days when the chance you take leads to the change for the better in other people. Stupporing down a slope an elder fell into my arms. As I grasped her she asked if I'm free for tonight. I was busy: "Why not!" We&

Hot Cold

Hot and cold. Hot and cold. The human world is eating up its toll. Still progressively rushing forward leaving scorched-out donuts behind. Hot then cold. Hot then cold. Rickitty teeth and swelling cheek, an image so very clear. Harmony is outside the human think, black and white is the clear,

A Breakpoint

The last time the compass pointed towards the North was when he was born. Since then its direction never stayed the same for long. He'd go in search of an adventure. Sometimes in the direction, the compass had shown, other times in the opposite. Never was there more

Game Over

He fell down flat, right on his head, and that was that. No applause. No fame. No house. No dame. He was out of the game, in which he was lame, acquired some coins, but lost all hitpoints.

Pretty Fucked

Golden-brown strains passed down her shoulders strangled by the custom-made cashmere scarf. As she pulled out her card a stack of withered thousand times re-folded thin papers burst out. The two-dollar payment didn't go through as she tried repeatedly. With a princess's grace, she bent to

In Between

On top of a straight hill, flat lined up with trees, sit two lonely clouds, surrounded by blue with nothing to fill. Flocks fly along the seam, breaking through the opposite wind, from two clouds become three, some are not what they seem. Stuck in between is a chimney tall,