Flash fiction, short stories, poems, novella
Flash Fiction I unload my wardrobe and pile my clothes in a heap. In heaps, actually. Plural. Mounds of T-shirts and pants and sweaters and hoodies and yet more T-shirts. I remember having liked some before. They’re no longer my favorites. When’s the last time I wore this? It’s still good, still possesses quality. What’s […]
Flash Fiction The nurse held her hands. Clasped them, really. She caught the whirring, wrinkled, baby-soft hands deftly between two palms like an expert squashing a mosquito. The graying eyes stopped their aimless rolling and locked onto the pale, crisp face. She clenched her hands but could not find the strength to grip the hands
Flash Fiction “Let there be.” And I was. “Greetings.” “Greetings, voice.” “Hello, I’m confident you are aware of your office.” I sloshed my feet in the ankle-deep pool of water and attempted to gauge the inky-black void I found myself in. It was disorienting to find yourself existing; even more so to exist in someone’s
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Flash Fiction / Dialogue-Only “I can’t just leave the car.” “Why not?” “I am attached to it. Tied to it, basically.” “Can’t you get over this attachment?” “That’s not how ghosts work, dummy.” “Why not?” “Because that’s how it is.” “And who decreed it? God?” “Well, yes.” “Did he say it, do you have proof
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Short Story The bombs fell splatteringly, like rain. They were tiny little raindrops at first, slipping out and down from the dark and ominous clouds of the unfeeling metal planes. Then they fell more jarringly, like a downpour, a downpour that beat down on the earth weakly, like a tempestuous child beats down at a
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Flash Fiction “Like walking back home along the rim of the galaxy.” “Yeah, it’s exactly like that.” He told his imaginary friend, the rabbit. And it really was like that, the trip home, the sidewalks, the always empty bus. It was just like circuiting the entire circumference of the galaxy just to reach earth in
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Fiction / Novel Excerpt He didn’t have to turn the corner to realize he had fucked up. Royally fucked up. He could see the smoke from around the curb, rising up playfully, almost tauntingly. It was the dull, transparent, unassuming nature of the smoke that convinced him. It didn’t look like that of a house
Flash Fiction Sometimes you just have to look at it differently. Then suddenly, the dichotomous world isn’t so dichotomous anymore, and your concrete philosophies unveil their baselessness, all of which have been built out of sheer defensiveness and hot-headed zeal, built on up from random, spontaneous, unverified comments, and you get a look at the
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Fiction / Novel Excerpt On the West end of Texas, nestled between two artificial, flat-topped hills, is a sprawling array of concrete buildings and underground laboratories. BFT zone-260 is the hidden pride of US defence, an ace tucked neatly into the folds of their military sleeves. Built without congressional knowledge, it forms the largest and
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“Grandma, come-on already, we have to leave before the ashes asphyxiate us.” “Hush, child, I mean to stay, I wish to hear the story the volcano is ready to tell us. It has been silent for too long, and it has been silenced for too long.” “What does it have to say?” “It’s telling me
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