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Flash Fiction # 391 -- Lost in Elsewhere, Part 1

Welcome to the new adventures of Mark, Maggie, and Edmond the talking cat.  There are three sets of adventures on the Joyously Prolific Blog.  You can find them by searching for Surviving Elsewhere, Journey to Somewhere Else, and Saving Elsewhere -- or you can find the entire set here: Tales from Elsewhere -- and you can buy the book for $1.99 with this coupon code WN38F (not

Flash Fiction # 391 -- Lost in Elsewhere, Part One

Welcome to the new adventures of Mark, Maggie, and Edmond the talking cat.  There are three sets of adventures on the Joyously Prolific Blog.  You can find them by searching for Surviving Elsewhere, Journey to Somewhere Else, and Saving Elsewhere -- or you can find the entire set here: Tales from Elsewhere -- and you can buy the book for $1.99 with this coupon code WN38F (not

Flash Fiction #390 -- The Reading

"And thus, the humans came to our time and place," Abricon said as he folded down the book's screen and looked out into the full auditorium beyond him. He put his hands on the desk, all five of them. "And so we are now united to create our own future."The humans clapped -- Abricon had not been so sure about how they would receive his history of their world written from a Taureen perspective.

Flash Fiction # 389 -- Catchin Bait/3

Tana and Dundas hurried to the areas the others had blocked off.  She could see some kind of metal covering in an area that was otherwise dirt.  An answer, finally --

"You can't do this!  They're just damned Catchin, not human!"

Tana had moved out of instinct: spun and kicked, sending the man with the bleeding nose tumbling backward.  Then she looked at Dundas --

"Uh --"

"You need to watch

Flash Fiction # 388 -- Catchin Bait/2

Walking back into the market area with Captain Dundas and her guards did not make Tana feel any better.  She'd lost her two crewmates.  If she lost Dundas as well --

Dundas did have power that Tana did not, however.  The Captain waved her hand, and people moved.  Local guards all but bowed to her.  Border patrol ships like Belgium kept places like this safe and had done so even before the

Flash Fiction # 387 -- Catchin Bait/1

Note:  I have dropped in on Tana's little scout ship and her crew a few times before.  If you would like to read the sequence here are the previous flash fiction pieces:Flash Friday # 106 -- The Replacementhttp://zette.blogspot.com/2014/08/fla... Fiction # 141 -- The Outposthttp://zette.blogspot.com/2015/04/fla... 
Flash Fiction # 161 --

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Flash Fiction #386 -- Everything Changes

I was nine when the world changed.  I remember my mother looking at my father, shaking her head in quiet dismay while pictures of disaster and destruction flashed on the television screen. I didn't understand.  "Are we safe, Ted?  Are we safe here?" she asked."Safer than most places.""What's happened?" I asked, watching my parents' pale faces."Changes, Tyler," Mom finally said.  "

Flash Fiction # 385 -- Forest Sounds

The wind changed; what had been a pleasant autumn breeze through the pines shifted without warning to a cold northerly blast of Arctic cold.  Lee stared into the wind for a moment, his eyes narrowed against the cold.  He'd hoped to go farther, but he wasn't stupid enough to risk a winter storm in the Sierras. So, no third night out in the woods.  With a shrug of his shoulders, Lee resettled

Flash Fiction # 384/The New Street (Drabble)

The city cut a scar into the hill across from her home and created a new bypass. Ms. Glinda Ozland watched as cars roared where once she'd watched a lovely bit of nature.She brought yard gnomes -- at least that was what the neighbors thought -- and settled them strategically across her yard.  These gnomes were a sure counter to technology. The accidents started immediately.  Nothing serious