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NATHAN HYSTAD: The Moon

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The moon’s surface was bleaker than I’d imagined.

From here the Earth looked lonely. Most of the land was gone, overtaken by melted icecaps and nuclear war.

We all lost in the end, but here we were, waiting for salvation in the moon’s welcoming arms.

The tides might yet turn.

Nathan Hystad is a writer from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He has been published by Saturday Night Reader and Kraxon Books. He also has a story in Tickety Boo Press’s anthology Malevolence: Tales from Beyond the Veil and in North 2 South Press’s Whispers from the Past: Fright and Fear anthology. He enjoys writing micro-fiction and has been published at Micro Fiction Monday Magazine, Fifty Word Stories, and Horror in a Hundred by Hellnotes. When he isn’t writing short stories, he is working on a full length novel. You can see his writing blog at nathanhystad.ticketyboopress.co.uk.

NATHAN HYSTAD: Come Out of the Closet

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The closet was dark and musty. He wished he could spend his time in the parents’ walk-in closets, instead.

The kid started snoring. The sooner he scared him, the sooner he’d get paid. Then he could worry about paying rent.

Too bad his place was no larger than a closet.

Nathan Hystad will be published in an upcoming Anthology called Malevolence: Tales from Beyond the Veil, coming soon from Tickety Boo Press.

NATHAN HYSTAD: The Key to Life

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The key hung around his neck. He’d tried every lock in the house.

Years passed and he forgot about it.

When he was eighty, his old eyes spotted the tiny door. He blew the cobwebs away, tried the key and the door opened.

Pain and breath left his body.

Freedom.

Nathan Hystad is a writer from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Sometimes he writes a lot of words and sometimes 50 is all that is needed for his story.