Author Archives: Daniel Malone

(Editor’s note: The following was submitted in March 2020 as part of the Hampshire Life Short Fiction Contest and was selected as a finalist) Henrietta Ross returned from her late afternoon break with a handful of cookies and a frown. The sweets were unusual for her. The frown, etched into the deepening lines of herContinueContinue reading “Customer Service”

The lights flick on and my brain drops out. A numbness envelops and halts all but the most involuntary of bodily functions. This is going to be worse than I thought. The clock. Jesus, the clock. It makes not a sound, but I can sense the ticking, unforgiving in its digital perfection, like a slowContinueContinue reading “Those Were Some Of The Reasons”