Tag: flash fiction
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31 Days of Art, Day 15: Holes
I was organizing my underwear into neat little rolls, just like in the book, folding and rolling and stacking so I could easily see at a glance what I had. Oddly satisfying. I looked up at the photo and paused, my sturdy cotton panties dangling from my hand. Because there was a hole in the…
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31 Days of Art, Day 13: Symbiotic
It was Gerry’s turn to have the luck. She’d been pretty patient while Linda’d hung on to it for what had ended up being three weeks past her fair share. Gerry hadn’t minded. Linda had a younger man on the hook, Mr. Arnold Jefferson from two units down, and she’d wanted the luck to make…
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31 Days of Art, Day 10: Spiders
You all may have noticed there was no Day 9 yesterday. That’s pretty much thanks to the migraine I’ve been fighting the past two days. I do have meds I can take, and it makes it almost bearable to get work done, but I gave myself a break and let it go. I was actually…
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31 Days of Art, Day 8: Eviscerate
The normal sounds of the empty house settled back in. Mella held her breath just a few moments more, but the kids’ screaming had vanished.
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31 Days of Art, Days 6 & 7: Absorb, Regret
And that is when it had crept up behind him, placing gentle claws on his hands, guiding them, whispering to him, the metal still warm on his skin.
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31 Days of Art Day 3: Membrane
They hadn’t been wrong. They had heard something, out in the hallway. Was it their patient? No. Their patient was… They had abandoned their patient, left him out there with that… thing.
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Short Story – Unsettling Hobbies
I finally sat down to write my own flash fiction contribution to Friday’s writing exercise. If you like, join us on Fridays for more writing prompts and sharing of the craft! The Appraisal The road in was long and winding, passing through fields stubbled with the last vestiges of the corn harvest upstate. The only…
Rachel A. Brune 