Author Archives: Echo Ishii

Need a spooky Halloween story? My story ‘The Assistant’ is available as a part of Steve Bellinger’s One Told Series. It’s work safe. Have a listen:) Dr. Gretchen Brenner is an expert in a very strange and dangerous field of study. As she prepares for her final lecture, she wonders if it’s time to giveContinue reading “Audio drama release!”

My flash fic horror short story, “LAST MINUTE PURCHASE” is featured in Siren’s Call Halloween edition 2023. It is available for download here.

Banana, embark, pillow, ego, foot Astra Ardent was standing in front of the flashing computer screen listing all the shuttle leaving and arriving on the Sixkills, a type of the line galactic cruiser.  Human of all stripes were bustling around the hangar bay carrying equipment and shouting orders. This was the true heart of aContinue reading “Friday Five Writing Prompt July 14”

Friday Five Prompt: Log, panel, long, senior, popular  *** Astra Ardent snuck along the long corridor of the lower deck of the galactic cruiser Sixkills. Other staff seldom came down here, but she couldn’t risk being seen. She wasn’t the most popular member of the crew on a good day- the only alien hybrid in a crew of cybernetic soldiers.Continue reading

Prompt challenge: embryo, future, fist, rider, spine Begin recording.  My mother says that my mind wanders and that is true. More true than she might think. I haven’t spoken with my mother in some years-other than the obligatory Mother’s Day card we have little contact. But this audio report isn’t about my mother. Static. Pause.Continue reading “Friday Five Writing Prompt”

Continuing from last week’s story here. Harry wasn’t the least bit taken aback about Dean’s suggestions about UFO’s. He’d seen stranger things. He was living stranger things. One day, he might even be able to tell his secret.  Dean was clearly excited as rocked back and forth on the balls of his feet. The noiseContinue reading “Friday Five Writing Prompt”

Decided to give a go with the writing challenge at Long and Short reviews once more. privacy, horn, rocket, track, party Dean Driscoll covered his ears at the sound of the racket outside. He’d close the door, but then if would get stifling hot in here. Loud music, horns honking, people laughing. It was aContinue reading “Friday Five Writing Prompt”

This is not a news day that leaves me feel hopeful, but these quotes do. “ The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to workContinue reading “Favorite Quote from a Book”