Achievements (15)
Stories (942)
Filter by community
The Escapologist
My training paid off today. Opportunity presented itself during bingo. I feigned sleep, a small parcel of drool on my lip. Audrey needed help again and I made a dash for the unguarded door. My stick helped and I always wear shoes now so I'm ready.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Mum. Content Warning.
I don't know where I am. Smoke rises around me. I'm strapped, seated but I'm in the open air. Blue sky. I can hear crackling, something's burning. And birds. There's an oval window next to me and a torn wall. I am dazed. Perhaps those birds are the ones you see in cartoons around heads when someone's been hit?
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Deal with the Devil. Content Warning.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. "So it begins," Alastair said, laying his top hat on the hallway table of his palatial home. He had just come from a wonderful luncheon and was full of the rewards of a comfortable life.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Tour Bus. Content Warning.
"And so, you'll notice on your right, Loch Nagar where the two clans of the McKenzies and the McDougalls fought a bloody battle on its shores in the 1300s. No monsters though! It's rumoured certain times of the year you can hear the battle...holy shit! What the fuck is that? It's like a giant wave! Is that water? Pete, what is that? Shit! It's going to hit us! Fuck! What can we do? Okay, those of you on the top deck, I don't want you to panic but you need to move. Now! And people here, close the windows! NOW!"
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Quiet Barber -the Microfiction
He didn't like to talk to his customers. It wasn't because he had nothing to say: he had a great interest in people and he had a life that was full; anecdotal and at times, crazy. He could regale his customers animatedly if he chose to, like a lauded entertainer and they would laugh, wide-eyed, at his witty, well-delivered tales.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
