Mayachrome | D. Paul Fonseca | Short Stories

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Until Dawn (20 min, read)

Paul Stephens encounters a lone house in the desert. He meets a mysterious girl, and finds himself irresistibly drawn to her. When he realizes she is dramatically different from other girls he's known, his entire life is irreconcilably altered.

The King Has No Teeth (5 min. read)

A powerful man realizes that without the strength to be his best, he cannot be the man he always dreamed of being. He questions his ability to be enough for the woman he loves, and therein lies his folly.

The Tale of Leif (30 min. read)

Far from home, in deep space, a young man unknowingly stows away on board a pirate ship. His trust in the most unlikely of characters is his second mistake. When he tells the pirate captain where he came from, she threatens his life. Forced to decide his own fate, Will Leif make the right choice?

The River & The Woman of Light

(4 min. read)

Tossed down the river, I struggle to get to shore. Surrounded by every word I had ever written I confronts my muse and meet her in the depths below the surface. This is where the stories begin.

The Silence (4 min. read)

A girl spends the morning with her father. After dad does some work, they head home. Unbeknownst to them, the fates have interceded.

SCARECROW (7 min. read)

Waking up under mysterious circumstances, a man finds he cannot recall how he had become captive. The clues are there, burgeoning beneath his subconscious, but his memory burns with the pain of the truth.

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