Short Stories

Rebecca Horwittt

Childhood Education Assistant in The Arboretum at Penn State, mom of 2, geologist, scientific illustrator. First pet: rooster. Favorite book: The Master and Margarita. Worst job: clerk at fancy farm market. Best job: current job. Weirdest experience: chasing a Himalayan tahr. Nearest-death experience (maybe): stepping on viper in Brazil. Thinks everyone should go to: the Appalachian Mountains.

5 min

4 votes 33 readings

Jack v. Jones

After Jack climbed down from the sky and chopped down the magic beanstalk, there was the problem of what to do about the giant. It had fallen with its torso laid slantwise across an untenanted forest [+]

5 min

4 votes 150 readings

Heavenly Bodies

The astronomer stared at his computer screen, flop sweat soaking through his shirt, thinking about fate, unaware that in the empyrean realm of Mt. Olympus, the Fates were arguing.
Clotho, the [+]

5 min

1 vote 77 readings

Realpolitik and the Rabbit

The princess had lost her shoes and now every step came with a soft squelch and the unfamiliar feeling of mud welling up between her toes. She was hungry, but not hungry enough to eat one of the [+]

5 min

0 vote 127 readings

Horror

Nittany Jack

Back when the Nittany Valley was iron mines and furnaces, an old bachelor named Moses Mifflin rented half his one room cabin to one Willy Nixon, a miner recently arrived from Huntingdon County [+]

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