White Picket

by B.P. Gregory

The starving folk in rags love gathering on my lawn to wait for me to get home. More every day.

The author was always fascinated by what could be contained in a brief moment. This short urban fiction story is part of a suite of short science fiction, fantasy and horror pieces by BP Gregory, each its own little maelstrom of human suffering and longing. Includes bonus short story Abstract!

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Published August 25, 2017

About the author

BP Gregory has been an archaeology student and a dilettante of biology, psychology, and apocalypse prepping. She is the author of five novels including the recently released Flora & Jim, about a father who’ll do anything to keep his daughter alive in a frozen wasteland.

BP Gregory lives in Melbourne with her husband and is currently working on The Newru Trail, a murder-mystery set in a world where houses eat your memories. For stories, reviews and recommendations as she ploughs through her to-read pile visit bpgregory.com.

Reviews

[S.E. Casey · Rating 5 out of 5]

As its title suggests, short-short story White Picket details the everyday humdrum life of the suburbs. The grassy lawn, the hedges, the air conditioning, the security codes, and the inconvenient slack-faced zombie hoard. Gregory captures the banal and quiet dread of going through the motions in suburbia: crowded, but lacking humanity.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun short this was. It needed no more or less, and it left plenty to the readers imagination.