Posts Tagged Short Fiction

#flashfiction #vampire Nosferatu, creature of darkness, undead, bloodsucker; these were the names they called him, these sniveling, daylight loving, bags of blood who were his prey. Little did they know his truth; he was a prince of his kind, and was no more an animated corpse slinking through the night than this vessel whose depths […]

#flashfiction The sun punched through the swirling snow returning Paul Ling to the world. The blizzard which had forced him to shelter under the rock outcrop had turned the mountain into deepest night and then when actual nightfall had come the world seemed to disappear leaving him floating, cold and alone in the void. The […]

#flashfiction #halloween “Trick or treat,” four youthful voices shouted in unison. “Happy Halloween,” Charlotte Brown said and rose from her chair on the porch of her house. Charlotte was dressed as a witch, but not too scary of a witch – she didn’t want to traumatize the very young kids who might visit her home. […]

#flashfiction Clancy rolled out of bed and staggered to the bathroom scratching an itch in his stubble and yawning wide enough to make popping sounds in his jaw. He partied hard last night and his vision refused to focus; he planned to ‘drain the main vein’ as he liked to say, and go right back […]

#flashfiction #ghosts Ghost story? You haven’t heard anything as scary as reality sonny. Let me tell you about my first house. The missus and I moved in, oh what was it, about a year after we got married. It was a nice enough place. The inside needed some work but there was a charm to […]

#flashfiction   Mary ran as fast as she could across the glade; Billy was closing the distance quickly. Her heart pounded so hard she thought it would burst through her chest but she refused to slow; she would not let him catch her. Mere yards from the vine covered cliff face she felt Billy’s hand […]