Category: Short Stories

The Ice Father

The Ice Father is a sequel to a previous short story called The Ice Mother, also available to read for free. An army of angels at our front, and one of devils at our backs. And both of them have come for us, Eleanor and me. She is no princess of mere ice and snow, […]

Christopher Knighton

January 25, 2026

The Angel of Death (Part IV Finale)

“Well, if isn’t it hindsight and her bitch sister karma.” There’s a man leaning against the glass as he calls down the hall. He really does believe he’s cool, it’s the only reasonable explanation for why he poses like a greaser in a movie about the 60s, standing with his arms crossed, hanging his jacket […]

Christopher Knighton

May 18, 2025

The Angel of Death (Part III)

‘Don’t punish the innocent because of me!’ Azrael begs me. You shouldn’t preach what you don’t practice, I tell her, and I pop my wings right out of my back. I launch myself into the air with reckless abandon, ready to eviscerate anyone who gets in my way. Above the skyscrapers of the city, it […]

Christopher Knighton

April 13, 2025

The Angel of Death (Part II)

Speaking to the dead is a bit different then just listening to them. To speak to them, I have to go into this other realm that’s right over the living one. Here, I get to be somewhat ghost-like.  I look like an apparition, and so do the dead souls as we’re all surrounded by a […]

Christopher Knighton

March 30, 2025

The Angel of Death (Part I)

I know three things about myself, and considering the fact that I don’t remember my life from before I died (the first time), that’s always sounded pretty good to me.  First, I know I like the feeling of money on my face, and second, I like using that money to buy bullets, particularly those meant […]

Christopher Knighton

March 8, 2025

Meeting the Reaper

Hank Haywood has died. That’s a weird sentence to think. I mean, I always say ‘kill me now,’ ‘I wish I were dead,’ ‘oh death, please take me away to your humble abode,’ or some crap like that. Now that I am… now that the end has really come, old jokes seem… well, they still […]

Christopher Knighton

July 2, 2023

Some Vampires Just Like to Watch

“Why do you do this?” Camilla asked Cade, one immortal to another. Fucking vampires. Cade looked out over the barren planet, and its sky devoid of stars, planets, and moons. There was only one light left in the universe. He stared at it, his eyes able to stare directly into the light without feeling the […]

Christopher Knighton

March 6, 2023

Wild Love in a Wild West

“You have to keep going, they’re going kill you, *ah* not me,” I try to tell him. Ben doesn’t listen, he keeps my arm hung over his shoulder, and keeps on walking.  The forest around us wasn’t meant to be trotted on by someone with a bullet in their gut. I truly don’t think any […]

Christopher Knighton

December 25, 2022

The Red Wolf War

Eastern Europa, 1073 A.D. During the Thirteenth coming of the Red Wolf, the Time of Two, the War of the Wolves, the blood flows.  Fireballs fly across the sky, aiming to wreak havoc on the castle of the Red Wolf of the East. The castle stands a dozen stories, with enough towers to be considered […]

Christopher Knighton

June 5, 2022

The Serpent’s Quest

Content Warning: The Serpent’s Quest was an attempt by me to write a story where the message couldn’t be told without sex. I had always heard that sex scenes served nothing to the story and I disagreed. I felt that people could learn a lot about characters from their sex scenes and I hoped I […]

Christopher Knighton

December 4, 2021