Category Archives: Flash Fiction

The midnight sun held back the darkness while we climbed. Clouds had descended all around. We climbed higher than clouds, and as dusk gathered saw eerie blue noctilucent wisps at the edge of space. We were on top of the … Continue reading →

Photo Copyright – Janet Webb “May I borrow your scandalous dress?”   He and I often talked in the hall about books. When I mentioned reading the Scarlet Letter for class, I could not breathe and neither could he. Yet he … Continue reading →

Ed Nyms hated hearing his name called out in public, but he could not risk the trucker following him back to his rig. The phone was broken but some angel left a marker that worked. My trembled scrawl: E Nyms=Lori=Cyn- “The … Continue reading →

Jimmy painted what lay under the surface. He saw hidden in me a woman that was still amorphous and open to the world. He said reality was as mutable as one of his paintings, that misfortune could be a catalyst … Continue reading →

In the alien world jumping from a building meant falling upward. Caught like a trembling leaf against the curved lip of the roof, only smooth rounded stone kept Jake from tumbling into the sky. Then hands gripped his leg. A … Continue reading →

“The school says you can’t read classic books on tablet!” and “I loved The Little Princess!” her mother said. Leith stabbed a finger at a dumb word on a page made of dead trees. Switching book for tablet, within minutes … Continue reading →

This morning tumbling from the billowing waves of the bed-sheet, a stone banded the white and blue of the ocean outside her window. She put it on the sill with the piece of sea glass discovered while folding clothes and remembered their … Continue reading →

Anna was texting in the field when a fiery eye opened in the air nearby. “After long ages, you have found them, Aeturnius. We will reclaim the escaped slaves tomorrow,” said the Worldgazer’s superior, still glaring through the scope. “But … Continue reading →

My First Friday Fictioneers story! The object is to write a flash fiction piece using a photo prompt. It is tough staying at 100 words. This week the prompt is the suggestion “Whose Reality?” and the following picture. During the … Continue reading →