Tag Archives: unlikeable midnight

Hallways

- March 27, 2015

It wasn’t my favorite place to be – honestly, I could think of dozens of places that I’d rather be – but considering it was well past three in the morning, my options were pretty limited.  The only restaurant still open at this hour would be swarming with drunks at this time of night, and […]

Eight Hours

- March 23, 2015

Commander Alexander Towncroft couldn’t sleep. And he hadn’t slept in several days. Earth’s first intergalactic embassy had the unfortunate luck to be positioned right next door to what must be the most unlikeable race on the planet, the Napli delegation. For days now, he’d heard nothing but their drums. Big drums, small drums, drums banging […]

Mischief After Midnight

- March 16, 2015

They had always told her not to use the shortcut after dark. But she was running late—practice had run long, and her parents had told her under no uncertain terms she was to be home in time for them to leave for a very important dinner meeting with her father’s boss. So she ran as […]

The Midnight Star

- March 6, 2015

Unlikeable. It was the same word in every rejection from a woman, on each evaluation at work, at the bottom of all my report cards in school. No matter how well I performed, my social skills were—in a word—non-existent. God knows I tried. I read self-help books. I attended seminars. I even found a woman in […]

March Stories at the Confabulator Cafe

- March 1, 2015

Hello everyone! We hope you enjoyed our February stories. Our return to the Cafe was a success, and we’re ready to share another month of free fiction with you. For the March stories, the Confabulators were given two words and told that we had to use both words in our story. The words didn’t have […]