Short stories published by Four Crows Landing.
“The Perfect Hiding Place” – A new slipstream short story by David Michael!
The house next door has been sold and the new neighbors are moving in. Do you think they’re religious? They seem to have a lot of kids. Do you think they’re hiding something? They look ethnic. Do you think they might be worth robbing? No, obviously, they can’t be *monkeys*… (5500-word short story)
“A Fine Mess” – A new science fiction short story by David Michael!
Kenneth is the best gatherer among the survivors. Only a few can gather Strings, the floating, Frayed remnants of what was once the edible vegetation of the world. Which is why there are a lot fewer people now than Kenneth remembers when he was younger. He might be only ten, but even Kenneth knows that if you can’t catch Strings, you can’t eat. And if you can’t eat, you starve and you die… (2300-word short story)
“Insanity” – A new science fiction short story by David Michael!
Corporal Jonathan Nathan “Drooz” Andrews is not sure what he signed up for, but it looks like the “future of modern warfare” has caught up with him. And he already knows he isn’t going to like it. (3600-word short story)
“Curtain Call” – A new sci-fi short story by David Michael!
The White Hot Hemisphere Community Theater Company chose Shakespeare’s Hamlet for their first production after the cataclysm–and possibly their last before the end of the world. As a tragedy, as a play about loss and descent into madness, Hamlet seemed an appropriate choice, at least to those players who could still make nonliteral inferences…
