Short Prose
By Caldwell
Mini tales
- Log in to post comments
- 1129 reads
Barcelona - a moment
Old witch of the barrio.
- Read more about Barcelona - a moment
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2108 reads
Understanding doesn't come with age
The cashier, 'Debbie' her name-badge read, waited. Sitting in the trolley my patient little boy, waited too. I fumbled with my purse dropping my change on the counter.
- Read more about Understanding doesn't come with age
- Log in to post comments
- 1013 reads
TSSB 1979 - Competition Entry
What is that in the blue and yellow cape?
- Read more about TSSB 1979 - Competition Entry
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2016 reads
Monday morning's inner voice
You sit there, slumped in your chair, eyes glazed as you stare at the mountain of tasks before you. From above, I watch you, observing the weight you...
- Read more about Monday morning's inner voice
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 927 reads
Plenty
Well, there you have it. Standing at East Croydon with my shopping, train that should whisk me to Redhill in all of seventeen minutes. Seventeen! But...
- Read more about Plenty
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 887 reads
The Calculator (IP)
The tram was packed, as always, a shifting mass of humanity wedged together on their way to somewhere else. A family sat near the front, the parents...
- Read more about The Calculator (IP)
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1195 reads
Pipe dreams
At 7:00 a.m., my alarm erupted with its usual enthusiasm, which was met by a groan from the other side of the bed. "I slept so badly," my beloved...
- Read more about Pipe dreams
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 712 reads
My Grandma, Mai Mai Gee (IP)
When I arrived in Myanmar, the familiarity was immediate and overwhelming. I saw my grandmother in the old women who passed me by, their longyis,...
- Read more about My Grandma, Mai Mai Gee (IP)
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 278 reads
In Suspension
This week I gradually came to understand that I had become unwell. It's odd because it has coincided with the weather: the meteorological kind and...
- Read more about In Suspension
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 631 reads
Off the rails (IP)
I did not come to Dr. Jennings of my own volition. It was my wife’s idea, and she insisted upon it with such an air of resolve that I had no choice...
- Read more about Off the rails (IP)
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 900 reads
People say I'm a dreamer
You meet Walter Mitty at a nondescript café on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon. He’s wearing a beige cardigan, slightly wrinkled, and looks like the kind...
- Read more about People say I'm a dreamer
- Log in to post comments
- 185 reads
I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
- Read more about I lit a thin green candle
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1161 reads
Out of the cold
Amsterdam's wind, slicing through November, carried a chill that clung to every exposed surface. The city’s canals and cobblestones seemed complicit...
- Read more about Out of the cold
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 371 reads
A toast to all the shamans!
Our visit to the Saatchi Gallery had been unexpectedly emotional. An exhibition themed around flowers—automatically romantic, explosive with colour...
- Read more about A toast to all the shamans!
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 151 reads
Labyrinthine Apparition
I find myself in a building that resists definition—part university, part manor house, a place with too many corridors and too much history. The air...
- Read more about Labyrinthine Apparition
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 121 reads