Posts by Jeremy Ray

I tried not to rattle my server tray. There she was in her black Versace gown: my favorite star.  I grew up watching her every red carpet event, envisioning her in one of my dresses. I had…

For 50 years of marriage the only times Jerry and Emma fought were over the cleanliness of the house. She got onto him for leaving his shoes around ... leaving the toilet seat up. If he…

Spair key iz in frog statue. Oh. Ware gloves! Give Spot ham and he wont bark. Daddy haz one of hiz guns in front door clozet. Parents room upstairs, 2nd door to right.  Shoot daddy 1rst. In the…

Sara reread the text once, twice, then three times: something came up, can’t make it. She looked at the apple pie steaming in the oven. The smell wafting through the kitchen no longer smelled so sweet; there’d be…

The spaceship went from planet to planet collecting the 51 types of entities. They were all colors, shapes, and chemical compositions. What they had in common was their official inclusion in the Intergalactic Federation of Intelligent…

The problem, 80-year-old Mrs. Pembleton, resolved, started with her first murder. When she killed the mugger who broke Mrs. White’s arm. (He thought he was so clever with the mask, but she recognized the two tattoos on her…

How I know Celeste? I was her makeup artist, she — how you say —  got me fired. I have two more runway models to finish and this American model put her — eh — mascara tears  over…

I was feeling claustrophobic, squeezed on all sides by the machine.  “The VR is magnetic,” my best friend, Mia said. “It’s sensing the signals of your nervous system so that it knows how and when to…

Gloria waited, crammed in the tight cell. Once in a blue moon, Only You by the Platters would play. Her cell would open, she would escape through the maze; its walls aglow with brilliant lights that danced…

They say being buried alive is the scariest thing. No.  It’s being trapped in your own body, having your parents squeezing your hand, praying to a God they don’t believe in — not knowing you’re…