M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 51
November 1, 2020
Coat
Michael’s got a new coat. That’s why it takes Veronica so long to recognise him, standing making animated gestures with his arms at the end of the bar. At first, she thinks he’s upset about something. Veronica’s worked here in The Tower pub for two years and knows Michael well enough to know his movements. But she’s happy to be wrong. Because then Michael is throwing his head back and laughing, loud and hearty, and like Veronica has never heard before. There is a man stood beside him that Veroni...
October 31, 2020
A Restless Heart
Summary: No friends. No family to speak of. And no end to his latest manuscript in sight. Tyler moves across the city hoping a fresh perspective will turn things around in his world. He doesn’t expect his life to be turned upside down quite like this. There is a ghost in his apartment, and new people who are insistent on giving Tyler their time. And then there is Xavier, the beautiful man Tyler keeps seeing around his neighborhood even when he’s not looking for him. How do all of these thing...
Prescription
“Think of it as a prescription.”
Nathan narrowed his eyes, though couldn’t stop the corners of his mouth curving up into a smile. “You a pharmacist or something now?”
Michael nodded at the teapot again, until Nathan took the hint.
“Fine.”
“If people have lived for centuries – maybe millennia – with only the herbal properties of plants to heal and treat all their ailments, then there’s no reason you can’t benefit from this tea.”
“Anything else you’re prescribing me?” Nathan asked, ...
October 30, 2020
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Summary: After heading off on an impromptu road trip, Ryan, his brother Ronan, and his life-long crush Travis stumble across a story about missing children and a ghost story at an old, abandoned carnival. This was supposed to be a vacation, and they haven’t a clue what they are doing. So why are they driving across the country chasing ghosts? What might they discover about each other along the way?
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An Odd Halloween
It will be strange this Halloween
To trick or treat through laptop screens,
To choose our costumes with such care
When there’s no one to stop and stare,
To bundle beneath blanket and throw
Because there is nowhere to go.
We’ll hide behind pillows with friends from afar
As horror films make hearts race wherever we are
Made scarier with no hands to hold—
Was that a gasped breath or a breeze that’s cold?
From the couch we’ll play peekaboo and hide and seek
With whatever’s out there making the landing creak.
An...
October 29, 2020
From Across The Hall
Ruben has a crush on the cute barista in the coffee shop opposite from where he works. Will he ever work up the courage to at least say hello?
A web serial that starts posting on November 1st!
October 28, 2020
The House
There is a myth about the old house at the end of Martin’s street. The house is dilapidated, with broken boards at its windows, and a front yard that has crept up the crumbling steps for being so overgrown. Even those who have lived longest on the street and in the neighborhood don’t really know much of its history. They don’t recall the names of the previous occupants, or know when the house was built; the shape and style of the property is really nothing more than an eyesore on a stree...
Limit
If his only limit was his imagination, then there would numerous ways for him to reach the sky. He wouldn’t have to think about gravity, safety, or a fear of a lack of air, he could just reach for it. He could already be there. But looking out of his bedroom window imagining others doing the same from their bedroom windows on the stars, Kieran could see so many blocks in his adventures. His leg cast. His worrying mother. And how he couldn’t even really get down the stairs.
One day, he promis...
October 27, 2020
October 26, 2020
Disposable
You thought I was disposable.
Monday morning. The first full week after the Christmas and New Year break, you late for work like every other driver out there, annoyed that other people might also have somewhere to go.
Me, also late for work, with probably the same Monday blues and concerns about the working day ahead as you do on this freezing, dark, dreary morning.
Your job, probably laden with responsibilities the same as mine.
Probably.
Such a dismissive word.
When you s...
