Great Fiction - by Central Coast Authors

 

2014 Columns

 

 

August, 2014     One-Way Ticket to Pluto by Ben Simon

 

With wizened solid blue skin which rivaled that of Papa Smurf, nobody would have guessed that Citem was a twenty-three year old man named Cedric Taggart. To most, he was just another generic Plinusian, whose piloting of the planet's premier spacecraft was hardly taken into account by the populace. But to the planet's king, Johnny Lurg, Cedric was that rare link to the human world which he had abandoned and occasionally desired small portions of.

 

March, 2014     The Brothers Snuff by Ben Simon   

 

It was a few minutes before three o’clock in a subterranean shack with the atmosphere of a halfway house and the twin stenches of overcooked chicken and undercooked red meat. Thirteen year old Chad, the only minor currently living in the shack, swung open the hinged trapdoor, having returned from his primary stressor, Fairview Junior High.