Posts Tagged FlashesofDarkness-year1

Social Visit

#flashfiction Marianne got out of her rusting Volvo and stared up at the looming Victorian façade at the top of the low hill. She lifted the clipboard from its spot on the seat and double checked the address against the one on the mailbox nearly buried by tall weeds. Marianne shook her head in resignation. […]

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The Nest

#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 […]

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Starflight

#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 […]

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6 word story – Ground approaching

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

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The Hellmouth

#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. […]

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6 word story – lady locket

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

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