JL Pichelski

Tag: Short Story

  • Pool of the Abyss

    Pool of the Abyss

    (~5,000 words) Content warnings: Depictions of peril My dad had always been a daredevil. For as long as I could remember, every few years, he would get some new crazy idea about quad biking across the Sahara or camping in a reserve in the middle of the Congo. You could always tell the pattern. He…

  • The Small Town and Global Warming (c.2008)

    I came across this today. It’s a short story I wrote for a writing competition about global warming. The page says I was 13 when I wrote it, which means the story would have been written around 2007/8. The writing style is really clunky and I don’t know what I was thinking with that last…

  • Waiting for Ordano

    Project Endlessness: Part 3 of 3 “Are you sure you know where you’re going?” “Of course I know. Stop worrying about everything, I’m trying to work out where we are.” “All I can see is sea.” “I know. That’s all I can see too.” “So how do you know which way this place is?” “It’s…

  • The Un-Independence Building

    Project Endlessness: Part 2 of 3 There is a place, somewhere in the world, that holds a very uninteresting skyscraper. A massive building; made completely out of white concrete, that fits naturally into the landscape of the city which it resides in. It is a building that many tourists pass by and disregard on a…

  • Kenni

    Project Endlessness: Part 1 of 3 It was the moment that Louise woke up, when she realised that she was not in her own bed. As she rose from her quickly fading dreams she could feel hollow and plastic material beneath her palms as the air in the mattress pressed beneath her fingers. She was…