real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Monday, May 20, 2024 Whistling Up the Moon by Sharon Frame Gay <i>An adolescent girl lives a rough life with her family, piled into the back of a sedan, but she finds solace in the moon. </i><br><br>I whistled up the moon tonight. It answered straight away, rising between the rooftops and lighting up the back alley. I'm glad that old moon paid us a visit. It seems like wherever we go, it knows how to find us. <br><br>Curled up on the back seat, I gaze at it through the rear wi… Read more Labels: real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 20 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Sharon Frame Gay Friday, January 19, 2024 Gone Away by Sharon Frame Gay <i>Marnie and her daughter Josie rely on Isaac to protect them, but the primitive Wyoming wilderness is fraught with danger.</i><br><br><b>Wyoming, 1870</b><br><br>Five-year-old Josie wanted to catch a dragonfly. She searched along the shoreline, an empty jar in her hand. I told her to be stealthy and sneak up on them, so she raised each foot as though stepping out of a muddy hole, tiny face cloaked in concentration. <br><br>I love t… Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Sharon Frame Gay 24 comments:
pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Friday, July 8, 2022 Spark of Life by Sharon Frame Gay <i>Sharon Frame Gay tells the story of a wayward Baptist daughter in small-town America, 1962.</i><br><br> I'm the kid who did dumb-ass things growing up. I stuck fingers in light sockets, turned the gas on the stove just to smell it, and crawled under porches looking for snakes. Folks said it wasn't fittin' behavior for a girl. Guess I should have played under a shade tree with a dollhouse and tea s… Read more Labels: pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 14 comments:
criminal stories medium length stories Sharon Frame Gay Monday, October 4, 2021 Rooster Tail by Sharon Frame Gay <i>In an isolated Virginia community, 1932, a gruesome murder changes the course of Cam Cluny's life; by Sharon Frame Gay.</i><br><br><b> Ledbetter, Virginia - 1965</b><br><br>I lock the door to the Ledbetter Gazette for the night and come back to my desk. The sun is setting behind the storefronts across the street, but Bitter Mountain still looms from my window in the coming darkness. As the owner of the local newspaper, … Read more Labels: criminal stories medium length stories Sharon Frame Gay 7 comments:
medium length stories pick of the month real life stories Sharon Frame Gay Monday, December 10, 2018 El Paso by Sharon Frame Gay <i>A waitress in a dive bar outside Las Vegas wonders what became of her dreams; by Sharon Frame Gay.</i><br><br> Phoebe stood at the edge of the highway, looking left, then right. It was just past dawn. Nothing up yet but a pack of coyotes, trotting loose limbed on the other side of a barbed wire fence, nose to ground on a hunt. One glanced at Phoebe, turned away and followed the others along a dusty ravine. <br><br> … Read more Labels: medium length stories pick of the month real life stories Sharon Frame Gay 8 comments:
real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Friday, June 15, 2018 Sometimes If You're Lucky by Sharon Frame Gay <i>Susan tells her story of surviving polio in Sharon Frame Gay's flash fiction.</i><br><br> Sometimes if you're lucky and everything falls into place, magic happens. For me, it is the nights when the stars are so bright they shimmer through the windows. If I am placed just so, I see them echoed in the mirror above my eyes. How hopeful they look, like flinty chips piercing the night sky, dancing so far … Read more Labels: real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 9 comments:
creepy stories medium length stories Sharon Frame Gay Monday, March 5, 2018 The Corn Crib by Sharon Frame Gay <i>Fourteen-year-old Izzy Cuthbert recounts the ransacking of her Nebraskan farm by a group of Sioux; by Sharon Frame Gay.</i><br><br> Journal of Elizabeth Cuthbert <br><br> The day the Sioux attacked our farm, I was in the hog pen with my mother, tossing scraps to the pigs from last night's supper. Mama grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the small corn crib in the corner of the pen. She shoved me in, covered my … Read more Labels: creepy stories medium length stories Sharon Frame Gay 9 comments:
real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Monday, September 4, 2017 The Song of Black Bear Mountain by Sharon Frame Gay <i>Bitsy, a traditional healer in the remote mountains of Kentucky, feels threatened when a new, educated doctor arrives; by Sharon Frame Gay.</i><br><br> Bitsy sat on the porch, smoking a pipe after a long afternoon traveling the hills. The sun had melted behind a Loblolly pine, the sweet after-smoke of day stirring up gnats in the woods. Before long, fireflies attended the dance, lighting up in a fever, seeki… Read more Labels: real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 6 comments:
funny stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Vampire Marriage by Sharon Frame Gay <i>Sharon Frame Gay's flash fiction about the practicalities of being married to a vampire.</i><br><i><br></i> Nowadays, there are plenty of books and movies out about Vampires. They are depicted as romantic, protective, mysterious creatures who woo their girlfriends, fight off other monsters, and dance with their loves under the stars. Teenage girls are mesmerized by the dangerous aspects of loving a Vampire, tit… Read more Labels: funny stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 14 comments:
pick of the month real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Tuesday, June 14, 2016 Snakebit by Sharon Frame Gay <i>A Navajo Indian at the start of the 20th Century tells the story of his life and imminent death; by Sharon Frame Gay.</i><br><br> I'm about to die from snakebite. The snake and I were both surprised. Of all the things I thought would kill me, this was pretty far down the list. But not as far down as being hanged for rape, so I guess if you look at it that way, it turns out that maybe this won't be ha… Read more Labels: pick of the month real life stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 12 comments:
creepy stories criminal stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories Sunday, November 22, 2015 Killing Frost by Sharon Frame Gay <i>At 92, James Frost enters a retirement home, and the company of women stirs old lusts; by Sharon Frame Gay.</i><br><br> James Frost leaned back in the recliner, adjusting his body into the soft confines of the old chair. It was leather, shiny with age, comfortable as a slipper. It was the only piece of furniture he had brought with him from home when he moved into Garden Court last year. Hell, at 92 it was t… Read more Labels: creepy stories criminal stories Sharon Frame Gay short stories 4 comments:
