Short Stories - S A Healey

Anything (a short story)

by SA Healey | Feb 2, 2017 | Short Stories

We were each to come separately. We had to be smart. Cautious. Cover our tracks. Travel as far as the money would take us. Away from the horrors of the past. The location was perfect, a tourist’s seventh heaven—presently cloaked in the kind of night...

Just Another Girl (a short story/excerpt)

by SA Healey | Nov 9, 2015 | Short Stories

The last time we spoke—or rather, when I jabbed at my keyboard with my heart in my throat, as he went from annoyed to ambivalent to appeasing in the blink of a cursor—that’s when I knew it was nothing. It, meaning us. It, meaning me. I wept about it, still, when I was...

A Tale of Two Kisses – Part 2 of 2 (a short story)

by SA Healey | Feb 27, 2014 | Short Stories

The next year passed…uneventfully. I whittled away the hours, married to a job I hated, while my limited blocks of playtime lent themselves to bar hopping and frog kissing. All I had to show for it was a borderline anxiety disorder, an occasional hangover, and a...

A Tale of Two Kisses – Part 1 of 2 (a short story)

by SA Healey | Feb 6, 2014 | Short Stories

It was summertime. The sky flashed its happy-go-lucky smile, yet my mood was sullen. Weird. He was due to arrive at any moment. After all, it was a momentous occasion—our fourth anniversary as a couple. We’d been together since I was 18. We didn’t exactly fit...