Posts Tagged FlashesofDarkness-year1

#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 […]

#flashfiction The tree was covered with tinsel and ornaments. The house was lit and smelled of evergreen and peppermint. Father and mother had gone to bed secure in the knowledge that little Willie was sleeping soundly with visions of sugarplums or whatever visions danced in the heads of little boys on Christmas eve. Willie waited […]

#flashfiction Danny turned onto the narrow access road and after a few yards turned off the engine. It was Saturday night, the big game had been won and it was time for him, Benfield High’s star quarterback, to claim his prize. “Oh, Lover’s Lane,” Becky cooed. She batted her long lashes at Danny and pretended […]

#flashfiction Phillip had lived in Las Vegas for every one of the fourteen years of his life. Half the kids in his school were transplants and each of them had a story of snow days and white Christmases. Tales of sledding and snowball fights had always made him jealous. Why was he consigned to this […]

#flashfiction #thanksgiving “But Agatha, you conjured the bird last year,” Hepseba said Agatha pushed her pointed hat back on her head and glared at her younger sister. “Coven ranking determines who is tasked to conjure each part of the feast. I am still the senior witch above fourth rank and that means I am in […]