stories

Jan 7, 2009

“The truth,” I said, “is out there.” In a bus station locker in Trenton, NJ, seething, breathing, waiting, explosive. “I have the key.”

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Jan 20, 2009

“Love is a beast,” he said. She growled assent softly, her nose cold and wet at his neck. He breathed deeply of her wet werewolf scent.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Feb 13, 2009

Where he was fire, she was water. Before long their relationship was steam and eroticism, but soon she dampened his ardor.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Mar 11, 2009

Belfast. The Sidhe sat on the curb. “This would have been a garden, you know, until the snakes were driven forth into men’s hearts.”

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Mar 16, 2009

The last Sidhe spoke: “Padraig, I go, unwilling, but I leave you a gift of invasion and strife, the land’s blood divided in your religion.”

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Jun 4, 2009

That was when I knew the truth of Global Warming, you see, standing behind a dolphin to buy SPF 100 sunblock.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Jun 7, 2009

He painted himself garishly: spots, stripes and zig-zags, primary, pastel, neon. Folding, rounding himself, he hid carefully, and waited.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Jun 11, 2009

Herne, cranky at Man’s misuse of the world, stood idly in the sunlight, sharpening an antler, waiting for the first idiot hunter.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Jun 15, 2009

My friend Jenny got lost in a good book last week. I shall forever regret not buying her that GPS unit she wanted.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Jun 18, 2009

All I had meant to do was sort out the home theater wiring. Now my newly hyperintelligent cat wants to have a MENSA party!

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Oct 6, 2009

Riding SkyHook slowly to orbit, I notice morality adjusts cheerfully as gravity’s grasp weakens. I may be exhausted on arrival

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm

Oct 26, 2009

That was the night the Monster Under The Bed ate a bad mouse and I spent my allowance on Maalox and nose plugs.

D.A. (S.E.) McDonald @davidalexanderm