Dismay Stories

That’s it. Breakfast dishes all cleared away. Cups neatly stacked, in the lower cupboard, Cereal bowls alongside with the plates. Now, why do I find something so menial satisfying? Oh, don’t I know the reason very well? It’s a form of security. Just like the warm aroma of my wife’s scones baking in the oven. There’s something steadfast and reassuring about that sort of thing. Fifty years or so of establishing everything i...

Rather than gallop out of the end of the tunnel and risk death after startling my people I halted and dismounted, leading Fleet-Foot slowly through the archway and out into the main cavern, As I looked around a lump formed in my throat and tears welled in my eyes, I had only been away for a few days and now the scene before me broke my heart. The store cavern was full of sick and dying men, women and children. The women a...

Why did you do that to me? I would never have done such a thing to you! It was cruel and uncalled for. What did I do that caused you to treat me in such a way? Did I make you angry somehow, say something to upset you? If I did, I am sorry but I don't know what it was. Even so, there was no need to do that. You have known about this for weeks but you said nothing, did nothing, until now. You deliberately deleted the final...