August Rode

In mathematics, a point of inflection is a point on a curve where the concavity of the curve changes…

Roger had been in the cradle of the marula tree's branches for three days.

Those three days hadn'…

You can hear it in the still of the night if you're quiet and calm. Wait until the crickets and owls…

Meditation didn't come naturally to him. Far too often, unwanted sensations and thoughts invaded his…

He sat in his car, parked in front of a small white house in Podunk, Florida. He had never been here…

RIchard stood at the stern of the ship, looking longingly back toward England. He had really hoped t…

How does this story start? It starts with the thought that my stories rarely lie down in the page in…

I keep only one mirror in the house and I'm not entirely sure why. I should have destroyed it when I…

Being held was a new experience for Ares and he didn't like it much. At some deep level, he understo…

Superficially, the last evening we were together had started out well but I sensed something of a di…

I knew what the endgame amounted to. What I didn't know was precisely when the endgame was going to …

He could feel her tenuous caress across his skin, cool and teasing. He turned slowly but never saw h…

He gently shook his canteen and judged that the water might last until perhaps sundown. If he didn't…

As the finely honed edge of his opponent's weapon sliced the air where his head had been a mere frac…

He absolutely hated this job. No matter how loud he turned his music up, the sound of metal on meta…