Napkin Scribbles: Short stories and Novel extracts by jhmitchell

A Few Short Stories

One weekend, three stories, 2,450 words.
* Image Credit: http://d4n13l3.deviantart.com/art/Only-a-spaceship-196544367

A Micro Fiction: Mosh

There is a moment of silence – brief and overshadowed – a hush that falls just before the rumble of noise begins. 

A feeling grows in the momentary quiet (which is not quite silence but rather anticipation). There is a noise to anticipation. A hum. A buzz that starts in your feet and builds to your chest, igniting in your soul.

Lights go up, the sound check crackles and a voice cat calls. A single, solitary call. But not for long.

A Micro Fiction: The First Kiss

A Micro Fiction: The First Kiss

Seeing as my wedding is coming up (in two weeks! Help!), I thought I’d share something that I included in my wedding invites. A short little clip about how my hubby-to-be and I met.   Chapter...

Incomplete

Incomplete

Things have been a bit hectic lately, so this was all I managed for last week’s aspirations – it’s not complete, but it’s something. Guerrilla The next turn was three kilometres up the road....

Writerly Aspirations: Week 6

Writerly Aspirations: Week 6

Instead, I rather liked this story it as it is. It has a certain melancholy, a bittersweetness that I quite like. It’s not a happy story, not even close, but I do enjoy it and I hope that you will too – even if it makes you sad.