Posts by Jeremy Ray

“Do you have any regrets?”Mrs. Merely coughed, looked up at all the pictures of her students taped to her walls and smiled.“Not a single one.”She never mentioned there was an…

Suyin sits close to the fire as her little boy rips open his presents. His delighted squeals make the hours at the factory worth it.Feng halts when he gets to…

He skulks the shadowed alley awaiting his prey.He’s followed her home aplenty and knows this shortcut is where he can take her.He salivates at the thought that her life and…

“Here’s to tonight,” cheers Finn as he raises his wine glass into the air.“To tonight,” cheer Leah, Melinda, and Easton.Never have there been closer friends.Every Friday the quartet gathers. Around…

“Oh yes, I quite agree.”92-year-old Philomena pays the gawkers in the store no mind. She knows they call her the senile old woman who talks to herself; she doesn’t care.“Silly…

You wouldn’t know Josh and Luke had profound Tinder chats.They stare out at the fancy servers.The fancy meals.The fancy water features.Anywhere but each other.​Had either asked, the other would have…

Trista assumed the package was another gift sent for her daughter’s 24th birthday, one Trista would have to return with a note informing the sender of her daughter's death. But…

Mo wished to be beautiful like his muse siblings. He came from a long line of great ideas. Artists battled to take his siblings home; not Mo. He was short,…

Jenny draws the curtains so a thin line of light pierces the darkness.You trip, and you’ll turn to ash, Aldous always warned.Would that be so bad, silly old vampire? she’d kid.He’d…

Old Mrs. Grimwald spied on old Mrs. Bloom, toiling away in her yard: how arrogantly her sworn enemy preened her garden.Mrs. Grimwald “harrumphed” down the ladder; she’d be damned if…