Writers Harbor

Category: Short Stories

  • Citizen Kane versus CenturyTel (round 3)

    Photo “Wino ” by Jason.Lengstorf Citizen Kane versus Centurytel (Round 3) Tuesday morning, June 2nd, 08.00 hrs. The door bell rings, and the CenturyTel A-Team stands on my doorstep. I check furtively to see if they are carrying any baseball bats, knuckle dusters, or sawn-off shot guns. But all I see are hand tools, electronic…

  • Citizen Kane versus Centurytel (round 2)

    Centurytel CEO by sylvar Citizen Kane versus Centurytel (round 2) It’s Monday , June 1st, 2009. Seems like a good day to call CENTURYTEL again. AGAIN. About my internet…. The long running saga of one man’s struggle against a corporate giant… Maybe they’ll make a movie out of it. Maybe Jesse Jackson will champion my…

  • Citizen Kane versus Centurytel (round 1)

    Photo by imagesniper Citizen Kane versus the twenty-seventh floor of “Indifferent, Inc. “ Part (1) Target: CENTURYTEL or: “an exercise in treating Internet customers with cynical contempt “ I just love it when corporate America demonstrates once again that they really don’t give a rat’s a***. And that they hope troublesome customers -who demand fair…

  • Flying Exercize

    Two eagles rose in the air to meet each other through screaming deathcries of war. The first, a solid white bird of prey, rushed through barreling updrafts careening toward his enemy, a black griffinhawk. He flashed his brilliant white wings as he dove through bursts of clouds, spinning in hypervolume bulletglide slicing through winds too…

  • Caught by the Warlocks

    CHAPTER ONE The battered clock on the office wall said 9.20am. In 1956 this was unusual as electronic clocks had not yet been invented. Dan lifted two bloodshot eyes from the huge mound of freshly delivered Royal Mail on his desk, threw them into the rubbish bin and made a mental note to have a…

  • Molly Dear

    CHAPTER ONE Gerry lay on the piece of hessian sacking which passed for his bed sheet, head pressed into the goose feather pillow. He listened intently as the strident voice of his stepmother forced its way through his bedroom floorboards from the kitchen below. She was telling lies about him again and he knew what…

  • Honesty

    I brushed some specks of dust from my police uniform, straightened my regulation tie in the mirror, then turned and walked downstairs. “Morning, Darling,” I said as I entered the kitchen and headed for the coffee percolator. Sergeant John Darling looked up from some paperwork he had been studying, took a swig from the steaming…

  • Our Love Was Meant to be Dark and Morbid

    C:Documents and SettingsMishel Rosario ReyesMy Documentsstoriesdark and morbid.pdf

  • The Fool on the Hill

    The Fool on the Hill (A story set in the pre-Revolution days of Old Ireland, when the British still held power, and all thoughts of independence and emancipation were deemed the impossible ramblings of deluded fools…) Yes, is there a hint of the Allegory here? Applicable to today? Here? Now? Can we, frustrated writers today,…

  • Ratatouille: The House on the Hill

    RATATOUILLE: The House on the Hill Burmese war refugees in a camp in Thailand “They lost everything…. or did they? “ “The wise eyes that challenge us “ credits: Simon Montlake, Nick Carey, Jeannine Aversa (previously published on Yahoo news, and re-arranged according to the whims of my dysfunctional mind) In a whitewashed office, a…