Stories tagged “Bree”

  • Murky Part II

    She scratched her name into the dirt at a tree’s base with a stick: BREE. She frowned at it. The letters were crooked and one of the Es was bigger than the other. Bree had never been good at writing without lined paper. Still, the name was there. Thi...

  • Murky Part III

    She wondered how deep the swamp lagoon was and what she would name it. She liked rockets, so maybe she would call in Launchpad Lake. She told herself she could bring the spaceship she made out of a milk carton tomorrow and see if it would float. A ligh...

  • Murky Part IV

    In a moment of crisis people say that the brain switches into “fight or flight” mode. This means that as a large, monstrous Florida alligator was lunging out of the water toward nine-year-old Bree, its wide open mouth about the size of Bree’s ent...

  • Murky Part V

    Eventually the giant gator’s aggression settled and he sunk back into the lagoon. Bree used this opportunity to drop from the tree and make a quick exit. The next day, she brought a small yellow plastic box with her into the swamp . When she popp...

    • Author: Jesse Blake
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Murky Part VI

    Bree watched The Alligator Prince eat from her tree. She could no longer see the meat in his mouth, but he was thrashing his jaws, so she assumed he must have still been chewing. “You’ve ruled here alone for a long time, haven’t you?” she asked...

  • Murky Part VII

    For the next six days, Bree spent most of her time in service of his majesty the alligator. She took daily walks to the private lagoon to feed Beast. The first few times she was met with the expected violent entrance before the prince would devour the ...

  • Murky VIII

    The kingdom had been invaded. Adults crowded around it in thick clumps. “The biggest damn alligator I seen,” a man said to his video camera. “I’m tellin’ you, was bigger n’ my goddamn house!” Bree scrambled between sets of legs to find he...

  • I'm back!...Without the Gift of Telepathy

    Remember me? I was the telepathic girl. Yeah, you know the one that caused a girl to kill herself and whose school was blasted to smitherens along with the majority of the people inside of it. Some good did come out of these awful events though. With t...

  • No Man is an Island (of Hate)

    Business concluded, the stranger bowed his thanks, took the case and left. Bree waited until the door slid shut before rounding on her partner. “I thought you hated outlanders.” Leon was still hunched over, punching costs into the computer....