Stand-Alone Story Index

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Unlocked Stand-Alones (Unlocked!)
Conscientious Deluxe Pants-Buying Experience: Isadore pulls on her gas mask and goes on an expedition to buy pants in a super-monetized post-pestilence hellscape that is totally not based on my personal experience.
Persphichor, Freelance Explorer: Perspichor goes into the desert to find out what happened to Emerald Oasis, and instead finds a mummy and a monster.
The Sacrifice of the Blood Sisters: Three sisters are sent to seduce three gods… but they have their own plan in mind, and it involves the true meaning of sacrifice.
The Lazar King: A dying medieval king has a brief conversation with his private physician.
The Other Legend of John Henry: John Henry and his wife Polly know better than to make a deal with the Devil, but when the steam engine comes, they have no choice. Illustration!

Flights of Reality

A bunch of stand-alone short stories.  You can buy the print/ebook edition with extra edit jobs, everything illustrated, and a couple extra stories here.

The Other Legend of John Henry: John Henry and his wife Polly know better than to make a deal with the Devil, but when the steam engine comes, they have no choice. Illustration!
The Kids Wore Red: Rhonda Burns is the school outcast, and Brent Garbo is the golden boy, but they share a secret in common... LOCKED
Fly Away: Roger has the best baby girl in the world, but one day, she begins to change in ways he doesn't like... LOCKED
Shades of Sara: One day, Sara discovers a glowing door in her basement, which leads her to a new family. LOCKED
The Ship of Dreams: As a child, Vickie dreams of a ship that constantly changes form and substance, but yet always remains the same. She grows up and puts away her childish things, but the ship of dreams is always there for her. LOCKED
Stewards of Behemoth: For millennia, stewards have cared for Behemoths in exchange for living inside their bodies, passing the duty down from oldest daughter to oldest daughter. But what happens when the oldest daughter isn't up for the job, and jealousy ferments? LOCKED
We Are The Revolution: Nobody knows who They are, but every Sunday at midnight, They execute the richest person in the world. But what happens to the sanctity of their revolution when the richest person in the world is a child? Bonus sketch! LOCKED
Gold and Platinum: Two raiders attempt to rob a wealthy dragon, only to discover they should've paid better attention to the nature of its wealth. Fanart! LOCKED
Thirty-Four Days: One day, Amelia wakes up to find everyone gone. All that remains is a message written on the whiteboard in big red capital letters: "DON'T GO OUTSIDE." LOCKED
Mrs. Cohen's Aide: Elderly widow Mrs. Cohen needs help around the house, so she hires Jael, a redoubtable mute woman who's curiously always available.  Then Jael appears on her doorstep with a duffel bag. LOCKED
Where Angels Fear to Tread: After her exile from Eden, Lilith wanders the earth, until one day she meets a fellow wanderer named Cain... LOCKED
Small Mercies: Masego’s people do not thank heaven for small mercies out of any belief in the name. They thank heaven because at least there are no large mercies. LOCKED
Very Concerned: Judy is homeless for nine months, and she keeps receiving much-unwanted gifts. Her ingratitude helps keep her going. LOCKED
The Weather-Tellers: In a world where homo sapiens aren't the only humans around, two girls try to run away from their respective peoples, only to meet in the middle. Bonus sketch! LOCKED
CareGivers: After many crummy jobs, shapeshifter May is happy to have a solid position as an attachment surrogate--people who offer professional emotional support and a listening ear to others. Except then one of the other surrogates gets sick, and she has to take on one of their clients. LOCKED
Wealth of Ideas: In Shangri-La, art is the highest, most lucrative form of human expression. Unfortunately for brilliant novelist William Dawkins, all he wants to truly write is crap. LOCKED
The Richest Shark in the Water: Sevengill lets her friends egg her into grabbing a beautiful cloth in the water. She doesn't like what happens next. Bonus sketch! LOCKED
Queen Mab's Castle: Time are hard for the Fair Folk, and they've turned Tir Na Nog into a tourist resort for bored, wealthy humans.  Maeve is a harried tour guide, until one day, someone pushes her too far... LOCKED
Borderlanders: Real men and real women divide themselves down the Mississippi River. Which leads to the obvious question: what happens to everyone else? LOCKED
The First Mythic War: "Oh man, remember that robot and pirate love t-shirt thingy I posted? I'd totally love to read about the robot and the pirate being a happy old married couple!" LOCKED
For Science!: "Geek girls in love. Bonding over killing zombies/aliens, reading comic books or going to see a cheesy blockbuster movie with lots of explosions. Bonus points for non-monosexuality (bi or pan, idc)." LOCKED
Fierce and the Fair: for the prompt "Beauty and the Beast. LOCKED
The Wolf Girl: Once upon a time, there was a little girl who won the blessing of a good fairy: she would survive all harm that befell her. A dark fairy tale, full of body horror. LOCKED
Only One Helga Macklewitz: For as long as she could remember, Helga Macklewitz had believed she was a fairy kitty trapped in a human body. LOCKED

Other Stand-Alones

To Lose Oneself: Baku is the last survivor of a hive mind, and one day, it loses itself in the past. LOCKED
Protection: Rosespar was Lila's bodyguard before she was her wife, and old habits die hard. LOCKED
The Making of Fifi: In a multiple system, Fifi learns to be herself just in the nick of time to escape a creeper. LOCKED
Fear Itself: A woman decides to ride her nightmare for all he's worth.  NSFW. LOCKED
Top of the Food Chain: Vijay prides himself on being a human predator, and when he dies, his next life is chosen accordingly... LOCKED
A Fiery Orgy of Wormflesh: "Genderfuck-y fantasy adventurer type and his girlfriend, and their husband... it's not so much that the guys are in love with each other as they are both with her, and just really close friends." LOCKED
Make You Happy: for the prompt "Give me happy consent-tastic sex between a living person (paranormal investigator? channeler? non-skeptic who set out to find out just how corporeal a dead guy/girl can get? idk.) and a ghost." LOCKED
Smooth-Dressed Criminal: for the prompt "A fashionable criminal fucks a innocent musician through the glass. It must involve gun play and jewlery.  ...in space." LOCKED
Piggy Bank Dreams: A horror-ish story about where piggy banks go when they die. LOCKED
Ana, Chronistic: The first lesson they teach in Chrono-Def is “don’t go anachronistic.” Most people don’t listen. Ana listens. LOCKED