Alice is a sharp girl with good instincts who's perceptive about people.  But none of this helps.  The birthday party takes place and the game Destiny is played.  Funny and dumb all night until it gets to him.  And what it shows shuts everyone up. Completely.  Because "they had seen it all. And that was why none of them spoke anymore." An impressive piece of flash fiction written by a Master of the kind. Stephen Sinclair lulls us into into the story and leaves us chilled and unsettled.  Listen to the story, read by me, by clicking the link below: https://youtu.be/qWz8jZaDsts

 Here's a piece from my latest narrated horror story. Full version is on my YouTube . Wandering Oscar , a horror story written by Stephen Sinclair is a gothic fantasy drama about immortality, guilt, and redemption.  Set across five centuries and rooted in the mist-laden fens of England, WANDERING OSCAR follows Lord Henry De Quarterly , a brilliant but arrogant Elizabethan nobleman who defies death through a forbidden ritual — and pays a terrible price. 

 "The Madman"  is a fascinating and deeply ironic poem by Georgios Souris from 1888.  Souris  begins by describing the "Madman" (a British visitor) weeping at the sight of the Parthenon's missing marbles  (the artifacts removed by Lord Elgin   in the early 19th century and shipped to Britain , and now held in the British Museum  in London)   and then writing to Queen Victoria to return them to Greece. This action of the Madman  represents Western romanticization of Greek antiquity. Souris mocks this performative grief, highlighting its irrelevance to contemporary Greeks. The madman’s unsolicited letter - "Who told this fool to write about the marbles?"  -  to Queen Victoria underscores foreign interference.  But Souris' pen doesn't stop there. While critisizing the British, he also cauterizes the Greek apathy and indifference - " we do not care at all, no one has asked anything of him, no one want...

Hello and welcome to another "analysis" of a Nicholas Leonard's story! This one is called "Kittens Exist"  and the word analysis is put into quotation marks cause I'm no literary expert. This post here is just my way of sharing my impressions and my thoughts on the story. So, "Kitten's Exist" is about a man called Matthew, who reluctantly goes to therapy after his mother's strong request. Why he goes there? Because he "had recently got back from a place that was taxing his soul" and his mental health had "insufficient funds to pay its taxes". What a description, right? Anyway, when he walks into the therapist's office what he finds there surprises him, cause he doesn't find a human but a kitten! And the kitten cures him. That's not the end of the story though, as Matthew returns in a week, only to find a human woman claiming to be his actual therapist. Things progress from there...