Originally appeared in SUNDOG, Fall, 1990. Flash piece, written while at JHU. Honorable mention in THE FLORIDA REVIEW’s World’s Best Short Short Story Contest.
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Originally appeared in SUNDOG, Fall, 1990. Flash piece, written while at JHU. Honorable mention in THE FLORIDA REVIEW’s World’s Best Short Short Story Contest.
(horror, short story) The LED bug kicks feebly, trying to push itself away from the wall. Its wings are rounds of mica, and the hole in its carapace where someone has tacked it to the graying boards reveals cogs and gears, almost microscopic in their dimension. The light from its underside is the cobalt of distress.
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