Posts Tagged Short Fiction

Background story for my Irin Knight novel

This is a story set in the past of the fictional world of my novel The Light Within. It describes the moment the Irin came to be. The Story of Armoni – the first Irin Armoni son of Giled was tired. The visit by the Atlantean trade delegation was more tiring than he expected. All day […]

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The Striped Worm

#flashfiction “Ow, what the hell?” Genevieve jumped up from her chair knocking it to the floor with a sound like the trump of doom. “Phil. Phil!” Her shout finally punched through the sounds of battle in my headphones. I pulled the right earpiece off and looked across the room at her. She was balancing against […]

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Night of the Crab

#flashfiction “Yo, Flori,” Dajon called. “Look at this big lizard.” Flori stood up, reluctantly leaving behind the beautiful purple flower she was examining. Dajon was out of the city for the first time in his life and Flori pushed down her annoyance at his incessant need for her to experience everything he did. She was […]

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Dead Under a Dark Sun

#flashfiction   The newsman’s voice sounded bored. “Incidents of violence erupted in Oregon as crowds viewed the solar eclipse. There are reports of riots erupting as the eclipse achieved totality. There are unconfirmed reports of several deaths.” “Dave,” Chelsea said. “Did you hear that?” Chelsea’s husband, Dave, turned from where he stood on the bank […]

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Critter Cuties

#flashfiction The alien ships appeared over every major city on Earth at the same time. No scientist saw them approach. No telescope wielding kid asked his mother what the strange light in the sky was. They just appeared as if by magic. At each world capital a tall biped, so thin that it appeared almost […]

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The Dark Cloud

#flashfiction The sun was shining; the seagulls laughed and shrieked at each other in competition for the tidbits tossed into the air by the sun worshippers. It was a typical July day at the beach. Jennifer toweled off after her foray into the surf and then, after surreptitiously posing for the lustful eyes that she […]

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