Posts Tagged Short Fiction

#flashfiction #aliens When the spaceships entered our atmosphere it was heralded as the greatest moment in human history. Thousands of stately ships floated silently down from space. They were of a uniform type, long cigar shaped vessels hundreds of feet in length. Each had blinking lights that scientists assumed were an attempt at communication but […]

#flashfiction Betty pulled up the app that George had written for their group on her tablet. George built a backdoor into Twitter with the help of the official API and some code he lifted from a website in the Ukraine. The end result of his hours of programming expertise was a private room within Twitter […]

#flashfiction  I joined the Army to defend my country. After the terror attacks I raced to my recruiter, signed the forms and then worked my way through boot camp to earn my way here: a godforsaken desert filled with rocks, sand and stinging bugs. What was I thinking? Sarge directed us to leapfrog down the […]

#flashfiction Brill strolled hand in hand with Mala through the field. It was a lovely evening to take in the air and luxuriate among the bioluminescent flowers of the park. Tonight was the night he would ask her to be his mate. She blinked her beautiful purple eyes in confusion as he drew her to […]

The events in this story were actually from a dream I had the other night.  #flashfiction  A booming sound drew my eyes to the enormous windows that made up the western wall of the apartment. Two blocks away I saw water explode upward around the wide tower of the Seaview Apartments; the waves were getting […]

#flashfiction Gravel shot into the air as Billy skidded around the corner onto the country road. He loved driving out in hicksville, long straight stretches with nobody in his way, especially cops. The speedometer climbed to 70, forty miles an hour over the speed limit. The big V8 roared and the car, which had started […]