Stories in category Fantasy

Long ago, when you were just a baby, we went to the Moon.

The barker said, “Come, then, let me show you this splendid wizardry! It attracts men to women, women to men, and makes virgins rush out of their homes to find lovers!” He reached behind him, snatched up a rolled parchment scroll, and waved it in front of Menandros’s nose. “Here, friend, here! You take a pure papyrus and write on it, with the blood of an ass, the magical words contained on this…”

Sometimes Amirah thinks she can sense the weight of the pyramid that entombs her house.  The huge limestone blocks seem to crush the air and squeeze light.  When she carries the table lamp onto the porch and holds it up to the blank stone, shadows ooze across the rough-cut inner face.

The one exception to this general malaise were the children.

Rina imagined her ice cube in the dark, cold cocoon of the freezer. Stay calm, she thought. Block it out. This is your life. This bit of almost-death.