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Joel Got Fat (a 300-word flash fiction story) by Oren Shafir

Joel knew that if he went to lie down, he wouldn't be waking up this time. Mom had put something in the enchiladas.

She had begun preparing them - with six green peppers, a kilo of diced chicken, chipotle chiles seeded and minced and finely chopped red onions, all wrapped in corn tortillas with strips of sour cream, 12 halved green olives and melted cheddar cheese on top – two day's ago.

Now Mom had nothing to serve her friends' Alice and Agnes and their families, twelve guests in all, coming...

To Sleep (600-word freaky flash fiction) by Oren Shafir

I stepped on the teenage girl's narrow sandaled foot with my hard black heel. Crunch. She whimpered, and I registered her look of pain and surprise, but I just moved straight past her. I was too tired to speak.
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And pissed. I'd missed my flight. Then the new flight via Stockholm had been delayed cause they had waited for a single passenger – a young blonde who entered flushed and out-of-breath carrying a bag over one shoulder and hushing her tiny baby cradled in th...

Zombie (a 500-word freaky flash fiction short story) by Oren Shafir

At first, we were just happy to have found someone to take care of him. “Oh, she’s taking care of him alright," Charlie said. “She’s taking care of his house, his car, and all his money.”




I went to try to talk with him one more time before we did anything drastic. At first Charlie...

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A drop to drink (a 100 word freaky flash fiction horror story) by Oren Shafir

For the first time, Jason thought that they might just actually die out there. That his naiveté might have cost him not just his own life, but that of Gina, and God help him, his unborn child. The jeep was far away now. The farm farther. And home farther still. He imagined turning the tap on at home in America. The water bursting out. So simple and abundant. So reckless. He looked at Gina’s lips, white and cracking. What he wouldn’t give right now to feel a stream - or even a drop - of b...

A drop to drink (100 word freaky flash fiction) by Oren Shafir

For the first time, Jason thought that they might just actually die. That his naiveté might have cost him not just his own life, but that of Gina, and God help him, his unborn child. The jeep was far away now. The farm farther. And home farther still. He imagined turning the tap on at home in America. The water bursting out. So simple and abundant. So reckless. He looked at Gina’s lips, white and cracking. What he wouldn’t give right now to feel a stream - or even a drop - of beautiful,...

A Drop to Drink (100 word freaky flash fiction) by Oren Shafir

For the first time, Jason thought that they might just actually die. That his naiveté might have cost him not just his own life, but that of Gina, and God help him, his unborn child. The jeep was far away now. The farm farther. And home farther still. He imagined turning on the tap on at home in America. The water bursting out. So simple and abundant. So reckless. He looked at Gina’s lips, white and cracking. What he wouldn’t give right now to feel a stream - or even a drop - of beautifu...

Golem (800-word freaky flash fiction) by Oren Shafir

Heinrich only kept him alive because he amused the men. Eliyahu spoke four languages, and he could tell you the full name, birthday and birthplace of everyone in the camp, be they officer or soldier, Jew or gypsy, communist or dissenter, man, woman or child, alive or dead.

But Eliyahu was an idiot really. A giant idiot, with a coarse and abnormal face, less like man than dog really. He would ramble on incomprehensibly mixing information about errand lists his mother must have given him back in...

Straight-edged razor (a 600 word freaky flash fiction horror story) by Oren Shafir

Bob woke from his afternoon nap looking at the reproduction of Georgia O’Keefes' human skull -- with its shattered teeth and empty black eye sockets staring at him -- and for a second, he wondered where the hell he was.

Then he remembered; this was his new home. He peeled himself away from the sweaty sheets. The first thing he was going to do was to fix that damn air-conditioner.
Bob changed his wet t-shirt and thought about shaving before Marian’s dinner, but he still couldn’t find his razor...

Straight-edged razor (600 word freaky flash fiction) by Oren Shafir

Bob woke from his afternoon nap looking at the reproduction of Georgia O’Keefes' human skull -- with its shattered teeth and empty black eye sockets staring at him -- and for a second, he wondered where the hell he was.

Then he remembered; this was his new home. He peeled himself away from the sweaty sheets. The first thing he was going to do was to fix that damn air-conditioner.
Bob changed his wet t-shirt and thought about shaving before Marian’s dinner, but he still couldn’t find his razor...