Category: Short Stories

  • Still In Service

    She knew the number didn’t belong to him anymore.Or at least she knew it probably didn’t.Three years was a long time for a phone company to leave a number sitting around unused. She understood that. She wasn’t stupid.But his name was still in her phone.Daniel.No last name. No heart beside it. No old photograph.Just Daniel.She’d never deleted the contact because…

  • Back Row

    He hadn’t been inside a church in eleven years.Not for worship, anyway. There had been funerals. His mother’s. An old friend’s. Once for a wedding where he sat near the back and slipped out before the reception because he couldn’t think of anything to say to people who remembered who he used to be. But Sunday morning was different.He almost…