Month: June 2025
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3. Wrapped in Fog
As she exhaled, the smoke curled around her sophisticated lips to join the cloud gathering above her head. The low ceiling pressed the smoke back down to create a veil of fumes that spun and thinned each time another actor passed through the room. She tilted her head and raised a thin eyebrow at her…
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2. The Escape
“Pretty butterflies,” the manicurist said as she shook the paint bottle and leaned over his extended fingers. He glanced down at the tattoo that had been exposed when he rolled up his sleeves. “They’re silk moths,” he corrected patiently. It was something he had to do regularly, though he didn’t mind. He liked talking about…
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1. Star Child
The star flared, flashed, and held still, pinging its message across the interminable abyss that separated it from its siblings. Inside the molten gas giant, a child held its hands around an unlit candle and waited for the response which would come with the next set of flashes. In the meantime, it watched the unstoppable…
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Coming Soon: When Hope Burned White, Vol 2
Over the next 10 weeks, I will publish my short story anthology, When Hope Burned White, Volume 2. It is a direct sequel to last year’s and contains 10 brand new stories that deal with loneliness, despair, whimsy, and the power of hope. I cannot wait for you to read these new flash fiction tales,…
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Our Birth Story
Hello World. Our first baby, Attikis Emrys Pearian, arrived 5-29 at 8:18pm, but it was a long road to meet him. My wife’s water broke the night of the 27th as we were going to bed, but contractions did not set in regularly until the following morning. By 8am, they were less than 5 minutes…
Grant Pearson 