Stories tagged “market”

  • Restless Nights, Chasing A Ghost

    “Chasing ghosts Williams.” – “What is it to you if I am Charles.” – “Well your working on tax payers money, they wouldn’t fancy the ideal of you chasing a lost cause.” – “Is that how you see human society a lost cause.” – “I...

  • And The Air Was Filled With Spices

    He followed her through the market, watching her hips sway back and forth seamlessly with the flow of traffic. Scents swirled around her like colors in the stalls, filling his nose with the leonine golden tinge of saffron and curry, the sharp black bit...

  • 12:28:37.12pm pt.1

    The day was clear as Madam Lohk entered the crowded marketplace. She pushed passed women haggling with vendors, children weaving around stalls and merchants who had long since stopped asking if “the pretty lady would like a necklace.” Inste...

  • Action Movie Cliches

    A suitibly contradictory bar sits in the dusty street of what could be any developing nation. This one is named Tiny’s, because the owner is quite large. It was a joke but has long lost any comedic value. A man in a dusty explorer’s outfit ...