Tag: flash-fiction
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December 07, 2009 12:32 PM EST --
The moonlight illuminated the cemetery with an eerie glow, making shadows seemingly dance around Cheryl. Dark clouds swept past the pale orb; a storm was on the horizon. “I’m here. . . .
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January 09, 2008 09:05 PM EST --
"So how many have you found, Nelson?" Professor Winkler stood with a purpose down the halls of Langley. He couldn't believe what they had found, and was hoping it was some small internet . . .
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March 29, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
All the parts are here, Mommy.
I was careful. I didn't lose any.
Mommy.
I'm sorry.
Do you wanna piece of cake?
See? I picked all the broken plate out and put . . .
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October 26, 2006 12:25 PM EDT --
He bowed deeply when she entered his domain, and showed her to the marble altar where she was to stand. He gave her a gold-embroidered silk gown to wear, and a diamond crown. Each day he knelt . . .
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March 05, 2007 06:09 PM EST --
This short short story is based on the poem, "Billy Talbot", by Ed Nudelman.
Plato chases the ground hog under the deck, shoves his snout in against the edging and claws at . . .
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May 26, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Back to the 100 Word Challenge . . . with our new theme: " A scene through someone's eyes ". As always . . . EXACTLY 100 words, not one word more and not one word less.
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April 28, 2009 11:53 PM EDT --
She had always known that she belonged to Winter. The frozen landscape, numbingly beautiful, sang to her in the same way that songbirds serenaded those who belonged to Springtime. She . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
Dada asked for the strawberry jam; and I handed him what was closest.
He hawked and squawked and drew a condescending eye.
"Good, God, boy! Not that bourgeois rendering from some retailer's . . .
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November 02, 2007 07:08 AM EDT --
Sister Scholastica sipped the wine from the glass on the refectory table. Tongue tipped; felt the juice; remembered past and time; the taste rinsed down. Held the glass; peered at the distorted images; . . .
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May 21, 2008 10:40 PM EDT --
Back to the 100 Word Challenge . . . with our new theme: "One Whole Year"
As always . . . EXACTLY 100 words, not one word more and not one word less.
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April 30, 2009 06:20 PM EDT --
We used to hear from travelers about how they was moving north. Those who braved the road was always welcome, even when the news they brung us got scant. We don't get much . . .
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March 28, 2006 11:13 AM EST --
Jesus, Moses, and Zoroaster come down to earth for a round of golf. Zoroaster is a duffer, but Moses and Christ are tied two under par on the eighteenth hole, par five. Moses and Christ both get on the . . .
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June 04, 2006 02:49 PM EDT --
I had come to a crossroads in my life. I was looking around wildly for nonexistent road signs. There were none. That's what "nonexistent" means.
It also meant I had to see my mentor, Sid . . .
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April 30, 2009 01:23 PM EDT --
The voices came often. They spoke to her of things she had rather not think of, but there was truth in the words they spoke.
Sometimes when they came, she would pick up her knife . . .
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February 09, 2008 04:46 PM EST --
Dear John,
In person would be better. Or by phone. But you've dropped off the face of the earth again. . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
The Aunties on the bank were Keepers of the Seeds, waiting while the young ones prepared the ground for planting under the direction of the Grey Ones. The young ones were city-born, but learned quickly. . . .
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June 26, 2009 04:29 PM EDT --
I've seen the light of yet another town disappear behind us as I follow her footsteps into the night.
Shuffle, drag. Shuffle, drag.
Five times we've fled, the corpses of her victims barely concealed, . . .
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July 15, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
Prompt: Tell me about your wonderful or horrible imaginary vacation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elaine didn’t . . .
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January 20, 2007 10:00 PM EST --
Casey looked outside and noticed the sky was becoming a bit ominous looking. She shrugged and paid it little mind, other than to make a mental note to bring her sheets in off the line before it rained. . . .
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August 25, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
yellow birches, red maples, and old old oaks offer their leaves to the rain-soaked road, mourning this august twilight, in camouflage for the palm-sized discs of flattened baby snappers. i continue to . . .
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