Fiction Category
If I Had a Robot
Posted on July 2, 2015 1 Comment
The doorbell sounded through the empty house loudly, solemnly. It was dark and dismal inside, the shades drawn to a close to prevent the winter from creeping in, but winter had long melted away to bring forth birds with their song and flowers with their scent, but alas, the windows stayed firmly shut. The doors […]
Excerpt of Being Alive
Posted on June 24, 2015 Leave a Comment
*This is a recent excerpt from my upcoming novel Being Alive, about a troubled vampire who meets the woman he has imprinted with, just in time for everything to go to shit. Please ignore any random errors, this is a first draft solely. Copyright Shelby Lueders. Please don’t steal my words.* Without bothering to […]
Bats
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
The smoke burned as it was sucked through a cheap filter and into my already corrosive lungs, but I was used to the burn by now, what with having been buying and rolling the small white tubes since I was fourteen. Yet each time I pull a drag, I notice death coming closer. Perhaps this […]
I Hear Voices
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
“They were always there, I thought. Somewhere floating around in the back of my mind. It made sense that all of a sudden they were louder, clearer, adamant. I wasn’t really expecting anything less, since that was the whole point of the experiment really. I trusted my doctors, they seemed kind enough in their pristinely […]
Sibling
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
Girls were running around, their moms either leading the way or in tow. Glitter floated about the air, as if it was snowing inside, waiting to be sucked up into the lungs of the overweight family members. Everything smelled like a mother’s make-up bag: powdery, fake, stale, colorful. Zack was sitting there in the grossly […]
A Stranger’s Cell Phone
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
The ringing was endless. At first it started faintly, as if in my neighbors house. Nothing to fret over, they will answer. It almost sounded like it stopped, but it didn’t and I shouldn’t have thought it did. It just kept ringing and ringing, that shrill sound that cuts through the air. It didn’t go […]
Survivor
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
The room was dark and cold, I thought. Everything seemed to be either black or gray, my life wasn’t colorful then. The crying was hopeless and surrounding, everyone was crying, I was crying. This was a sad and scary place, full of night terrors that shake me awake. I didn’t want to be here and […]
A Keeper of a Family Tradition
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
The glasses clink together as she removed his favorite and most used from the cabinet. The ice tinkled louder when she opened the freezer and pulled the glass-like cubes and dropped them into the expensive receptacles. This was her job, every evening. Get out the lemons and the soft cutting board and a knife. She […]
I Stared at the Closed Door
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
There was something about her, always wanting to help that drew me to her instantly. Her diligence in her work, but her carefree and lighthearted attitude towards everything else. She was always clean in her scrubs and was eager to help both her patients and their owners. Her hair, that chocolate-auburn, would fall neatly around […]
Don’t Drive too Fast
Posted on May 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
“Life is too short to drive fast” read the bright yellow, basically glowing, sticker that was strategically placed on the back of the beat up car in front of me. For someone who seemed to enjoy sporting stickers that they think offer good advice, I was prepared for the onslaught of other stickers and magnets […]
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