Tag: short stories

  • Good Neighbors

    A Christmas Story, excerpt from Death and the Dream. After Christmas my Aunt Muriel and I walk through the barren park on East Fifth Street in New York. It’s not much of a park. We have to stop every six feet or so beside one of the rotting wooden benches to let my Aunt Muriel…

  • Distracted by Death: New York Stories

    Distracted by Death: New York Stories

    I used to have an obsession with death. Lately, I have come to think of it as more of a distraction but it still definitely sparks my imagination. I’ve just published a new collection that contains all of my novellas and short stories in one place, titled Distracted by Death: New York Stories on the…

  • Way to Heaven

    An excerpt from Death and the Dream by J.J.Brown, deliciously dark short stories for Halloween. It’s so unnaturally quiet inside the old wood shed. And dark. It’s so completely dark inside, even at midday, as if buried above ground. Spiders hang in front of webs so thick on the dirty windows that they form lace…

  • Good Neighbors: A Day After Christmas Story in NYC

    GOOD NEIGHBORS Book Excerpt from Death and the Dream ~ Short Stories by J.J.Brown After Christmas my Aunt Muriel and I walk through the barren park on East Fifth Street in New York. It’s not much of a park. We have to stop every six feet or so beside one of the rotting wooden benches to…

  • Rose Death – A Short Story

    What will we feel when we die? Old Viola is about to find out on her last trip to her garden, unless her grandchild finds her first… in this excerpt from my 1st book of short stories. Rose Death by J.J.Brown Excerpt from Death and the Dream, Short Stories Old Viola felt a sudden weakness…