Posts Tagged Short Fiction

#flashfiction Barry heard a cracking sound. Something heavy snapped a branch on his right. He froze. The park ranger had warned him of grumpy bears just waking from hibernation. What had the man said? Was he supposed to freeze or run? Why had he spent so much time focused on updating his Twitter feed instead […]

#flashfiction #steampunk The airship Fatuity hovered above the castle of the mad Baron Otto von Burstein. It’s armored sides glistened in the morning sun displaying its impregnable defiance to the machinations of the evil Baron. “Number One, set engines to hover,” Air Captain Sir Miles Scissorbill said to the squat man beside him. “It’s time […]

#flashfiction #death Gertrude coughed, a deep racking cough, as she ushered out the last of her photography customers. It had been a long day and the coughing and pain in her chest that had dogged her for the last month didn’t make it any easier to bear. Gertrude wondered if this cough could be something […]

#flashfiction  From Authors Publish site:  Write a 6 word short story that goes with this image.   Marriage counseling was NOT going well…        

#flashfiction #zombies #warfare This is not a zombie story. No, really. Just because there are reanimated corpses does not make this about zombies. Bear with me, it was all about war and human dignity. Our newly elected leaders were much more hard line on the aggressive theological based ideologies than the prior administrations. Instead of […]

#flashfiction #santa #Krampus #Christmas Krampus was tired and a bit depressed. His night had gone well, perhaps too well. There were so many naughty children to punish that he had broken his switches half a dozen times from all the beatings. His lot in life was to only see the bad and it brought him […]