Category Archives: Creative Fiction

Footsteps (Excerpt)

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Tietsu

Soon, after leaving their settlement and emerging from the forest and onto an old and overgrown asphalt road they met a pack of stray dogs. Stray wasn’t the right word. They were mostly dosmeticated, easy to approach, which landed them … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged baby steps towards progress, Dogs, dystopia, minstrels, nature, ronin, scavenging, slice of life, survival | Leave a comment

The Answers You Can Never Know

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Tietsu

She crosses in front of him, some part of him compelled to follow. After several steps she stops, crouching down like an inquisitive child. She picks something up from the ground. She examines it, the flower blossoming in her hand as … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged a conversation with death, A novel someday, answers, beauty, Dreams Away, existence, galaxies, happiness, light, Love, planets, truth, universe | Leave a comment

Price of Tomorrow

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Tietsu

I’m dying. Excuse me? I’m dying. What do you mean? What do you mean ‘what do you mean’? I mean, this thing I’m doing now, couple months time, I won’t be doing it anymore. I don’t- why? What happened? Fuck … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged alcoholism, cancer, death, dialogue, dying, fatalism, illness, microfiction, misery, mortality, sickness, sketch, soccer, the taste of mortality | Leave a comment

Rules

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Tietsu

The rules are inherited. Not immutable. Not immanipulatible. They are simply reminders from our mother that exists outside causality. A recommendation if you will. But with every child there comes a time to make its own rules. And I say … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged cosmos, electrons, humor, kids, maths, neutrons, physics, protons, remake the world, rules, science | Leave a comment

Coward

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Tietsu

“Never tol’ ya where I was headin’. Never tol’ ya nothin’. Just showed up and took it ‘pon yerself ta follow. Well, surprise darlin’, ain’t headin’ nowhere. Been walkin’ since I can ‘member. One broke path to ‘nother. Ya see … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged coward, dystopia, knowledge, lies, living through the end, No one said survival was going to be easy, Old, pragmatic in the face oblivion, pragmatism, scarred, survival, wanderer | Leave a comment

Valhalla

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Tietsu

Slothing through the field, our swords meet, I stab the guy, his buddy eyes me, but it’s like, “Why?”, you know? Whatever, he’s dead. I don’t care. I doubt he does either. It’s like, yeah I get it we’re at … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged A Saga of Sorts, battle, comrades, Egil, hel, mead, one death is as good as another, ragnarok, slaughter, swords, tit for tat, valhalla, vikings, war | Leave a comment

The Only Part of You He Had

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Tietsu

Eight months. Eight months she’d been gone. Buried under a litany of nightmares and choked down tears. You spend enough time crying eventually you to hide it, let it out it bursts, little moments of weakness as the new status … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged cancer, Loss, Love, mourning, opening old wounds, pain, post-it note, rediscovery, sexybutt, suicide, tears | Leave a comment

Bodies

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Tietsu

Dead men. Dozens of the them litter the street, eyes hollow like the blackened core of rotten trees. Some still twitch others, fester quietly in the wet chaos of the road, oblivious to the mounds of traffic racing past them … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged bodies, bones, chaos, death, horror, injury, organs, slaughter, war, warzone | Leave a comment

Red Boar Jones: Enter Holly

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Tietsu

He walks in and finds a seat in corner booth. He stretches his back working out a kink that has been following him since he woke up this morning. It’s dark, light enough to make out the silhouettes of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, biotech, blockchain, Book #2, Edensphere, futurism, implants, novel, prosthetics, Red Boar Jones, Rough Draft, techno-dystopia, whispers and whiskey | Leave a comment

Night Watch

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Tietsu

Being a night watchman isn’t exactly the barrel daring espionage-thwarting some of the more manic serials make it out to be. Ever since the treaty with the Straits a decade and a half ago, the job mainly comes down to … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged bears, blood faeries, dognapping, fantasy, Forests of Odd, low fantasy, robot, search and rescue, tree lizards, trolls, Watchman, Writer's Block, Writing warm-up | Leave a comment