Have you ever watched The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town? If you haven’t, I highly recommen…
Fiction
Play on Words
Every once in awhile I will hear my mom say a pretty strange phrase that may seem perfectly normal to her. Whenever she’…
Barren
He had lived in this house his entire life, but he was standing in a hallway he had never seen before. What was previous…
Shouldn’t, Wouldn’t, Couldn’t, Can, Did.
“Come with me,” he said, fully aware my answer most likely would be “no.” Why? To be honest, I don’t really know. Maybe …
Boo: A Halloween Story
To Jack Smith, my dearest friend, I have a confession to make, and among all the others, you are the only one whom I tru…
Sadie Britton’s Final Story
In April 2015, in the very infancy of the Oracle, I sent in a short story called “Amy in Cypress.” That touched off more…
Horoscopes: You and the stars
Have you ever wondered about your relationship between your soul and the galaxy? Do your personality and fate really rel…
Ocean Current
Content Warning: The events described in this piece may disturb some readers. I woke up to the bright rays of light peak…
Bang Bang (Warning: Sensitive Content)
Content Warning: This excerpt contains mentions of a traumatic event that occurred a year prior to the story’s beginning…
The Professor of Fluency
“No one can be fluent in all the languages of the universe, for there are those of science, nature, and mathematics, of …