Stories tagged “misdirection”
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Wrong Turn At Albuquerque
Declan’s eyes snapped open. He was still laying down, but the doctors were gone. As he slowly became more and more aware, he realized that the hospital was, too. He was stiff and sore, and wasn’t moving too good, so he just looked around fo...
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A Taste for Murder
Some say God has a purpose for all of us; my life a perfectly forged tooth, part of a cog, that’s part of a gear system, that slowly but surely executes a divine master plan. If this is true, what cosmic scheme could possibly require of me a most...
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Sergei
Let me tell you about Sergei. He’s 6’1", lean and muscular; his color is a beautiful reddish-brown and he is well-proportioned. We’ve been together for almost a year, and I’ve never regretted a day of it. We have our proble...
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Something Less Boring
Death scratched the back of her neck uncomfortably. This sort of thing only happened once every few centuries, but when it did, it tended to end up starting cults, which in the long run usually meant more paperwork and some very tiresome interviews wit...