Posts Tagged Short Fiction

This week’s picture is a bit early as I’ll be heading to Lexington KY tomorrow for SCAREFEST. Come visit I’m in booth 194 with Macabre Mercantile. #picturefiction #flashfiction Knock Knock. Pete looked up from his journal. Who could be at his door this early on a Saturday? He debated rushing to answer but chose to […]

#picturefiction #flashfiction Professor Mills giggled like a schoolgirl as he brushed away another layer of soil from what the farmer had thought to be a large piece of marble. Marble, the idiot. No one could ever mistake bone for marble. “Calm down Mills,” Professor Harris said. “You know it’s just a dinosaur  or maybe a […]

  #picturefiction #flashfiction Darkness surrounded him like a heavy shroud. He could feel it  pressing close about him. It was palpable, like a fog. It seemed as if it were composed of layers. Each time he strained his eyes to see through the Stygian dark another layer pressed in closer robbing the hints of vision […]

    #picturefiction  #flashfiction Marta felt the pod buck as it separated from the mothership. A short burst of acceleration caused her already painful abdomen to clench, eliciting a small yelp of discomfort. The pod coasted around the keel of the mothership and vectored toward Ganymede. The computer clucked to itself as it calculated the […]

#picturefiction  #flashfiction The Barnacle had been at sea for a long time – too long. The men were worn and beaten by the unending labors against the hungry deep which would pull them down without a care. The island wasn’t on any chart and Henderson, the navigator, swore that he had sailed this course not […]

#picturefiction  #flashfiction Henry wasn’t like the other kids. When other children were given gifts they would thank the person and happily play with whatever toy or gizmo they had received. Henry would thank the gift giver by unboxing the item and then destroying it as quickly and violently as possible before their disbelieving eyes. Henry […]