Weird Short Stories

My window is stupidly narrow. Whenever I smoked and couldn’t muster the twenty seconds it takes to clear my ashtray, the wind would spurt through; like an arrow through the arrowslit...

Denis Burbank, a US geologist, visits the Uyuni salt flats and gets more than he bargained for.

Follow the tracks

I met the goddess Isis

"Behind the jagged rocks I glow Above the piles of sand I show"

Bucklebee Hazeldust, ilf and tower-hand to the sacred sanctum of Windspire. He's happy in his work, wrangling Hummble's and arguing with the tower guardian, Pyx. Until a sermon becomes something else.

The title says it all.

I'm not really sure where I'm goin' with this...

Morality and mercy are easy concepts to follow when there are no risks involved. But it will always come a day when it's not easy. When a person must choose; to die honorably like a hero, or disgrace.