Posts Tagged Short Fiction

#flashfiction The trail winding through the Wilson Bayou Nature Preserve brought Savannah Lee to the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. She stopped to stare, awestruck, at the expanse of water reaching to the horizon. The sun was low in the sky, beginning to dip behind distant storm clouds. Savannah Lee removed her sunglasses and […]

#flashfiction Doctor Mortimer Powers completed the pre-launch checklist and felt his baby hum to life. The starship, which he called Destiny, had taken twelve years to build and he had spent his entire adult life designing the ship systems and the Continuum drive. The speed of light was immutable but Powers found the shortcut around […]

  Another image prompt from Authors Publish for a 6 word story … Ground approaching, life receding, wrong step.  

#flashfiction #hell “I’m telling you it’s the entrance to Hell,” the old man almost shouted. Helena smiled in what she thought was a calming manner but any observer would have recognized instantly as patronizing. She always managed to encounter such quaint and, frankly, insane superstitions whenever she visited one of these middle of nowhere burghs. […]

This was a prompt from Author’s Publish on Facebook. Write a 6 word story about this image Her soul forever trapped, forever mine.

#flashfiction #cthulhu Commander Hess staggered onto the beach with his handful of sailors. Less than half his men had escaped. He would be glad to put this godforsaken island behind them. The watch officer had spotted the island three days ago. Hess and Captain Van Hort had both scratched their heads in confusion, no island […]