Melkur
Primary tabs
I have 189 stories published in
6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 85901 times
and 26 of my stories have been cherry picked.
My stories
Happy Death Men
‘Have ye got it?’ MacNeil emerged from behind a gravestone, lugging a form only too like himself, wrapped in coarse sacking. The Edinburgh scene was...
- Read more about Happy Death Men
- Log in to post comments
- 354 reads
Flowers at a Grave
‘Oh, look, there are flowers at his grave,’ said my aunt dismissively, suddenly reaching for her handkerchief. We stood in the graveyard, on a bright...
- Read more about Flowers at a Grave
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 459 reads
An Island of Talking Heads
Caligulus Minus shivered as he boarded the trireme floating off the Gaulish coast. He looked back at the shore. ‘I don’t like it,’ he said to Sextus...
- Read more about An Island of Talking Heads
- Log in to post comments
- 313 reads
We Two Are Coffins
My loved one went ahead of me, in the plague. I could not stop loving him, even though he grew black boils and sweated and called for his mother,...
- Read more about We Two Are Coffins
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 707 reads
Muckle Flugga
Joiner turned his bruised face to the light. ‘We must get it going,’ he shouted above the storm. Henderson scowled, his face grey in the fading...
- Read more about Muckle Flugga
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 495 reads