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Flash | Pool of Spirits

Narya by shirotsuki on DeviantArt “Pool of Spirits” A slit of golden light sliced the air vertically and pealed back to create a door filled with brilliant light. The wooded area around the door went still. Listening. Sniffing. Waiting. At a sudden ruckus rattling beyond the light,curious life mulling about the door scattered, feeling atremblehurtling […]

Flash | Confrontation in the Wood of Fear

FIGHT NIGHT by MichaelBills on DeviantArt “Confrontation in the Wood of Fear” Davey’s bladder felt like bursting. An overfilled canteen leaking at the top. All around him his fellow scouts snored. Their scout leader the loudest, a large grizzly bear dreaming of an elusive fish in a rushing stream. It was still dark. The early […]

Flash | Small but Fierce Slayer

Princess by shirotsuki on DeviantArt “Small but Fierce Slayer” The palace shook with trepidation. Anticipation of the terror to come. Terror that set the capital city of Canard ablaze. Jane watched from her balcony as the city her family protected burned. A pyre for all the common folk who’d already lost their lives fleeing for […]

Flash | Star Gazer

The Chattering Stars by shirotsuki on DeviantArt “Star Gazer” Molla ran down the aisle between the two rows of dilapidated pews. Heads poked up from beneath bundles of rags, children curious about the ruckus. Everyone feared the coppers would come to the abandoned church and raze the place, kicking the pack of unwanted church miceinto […]

Flash | Kite Riders

Kite_in_the_sky by dothaithanh on DeviantArt “Kite Riders” Wind swept through the tight, crowded streets of the Gutter. Streams of warm air carrying the stink of humanity closed in too closely, too intimately. The currents also carried the whooping and hollering of accelerated adrenaline. Kaylin felt her heart thumping. Barely heard her cries of jubilation as […]

Flash | Never Say ‘Give Up’ to a Dinosaur or a Princess

Carola – The Princess and the Dinosaur by DiegooCunha on DeviantArt “Never Say ‘Give Up’ to a Dinosaur or a Princess” Princess Analla wouldn’t let them get their hands on her. Not after what those traitors didto her family. Red flashed before Analla’s eyes. Walls splashed with gore. Pale wood floors soaking to dark. […]

Flash | Cass-it

The Retro of Tomorrow by Brosa on DeviantArt “Cass-it” Gizzy never saw junk, she saw forgotten treasures needing a little spit and some polish. Anda loved Gizzy for her optimism and spirit. Everyone did. While most oldsters sneered and frowned at TechGens, they only saw Gizzy when she walkedup, sat down, and starting askingabout The […]

Flash | Panda Liberation

Panda Squad by LouVictorsk on DeviantArt “Panda Liberation” As a child Jwen loved the circus. Then she grew up. Nestled on her family’s estate—isolated from the world outside of balls, the visitors doing business with her family, the nannies and tutors—Jwen knew nothing beyond her own privilege. Then she turned fifteen. To celebrate the occasion […]

Flash | Treasure in a Jar

Remnants by shirotsuki on DeviantArt “Treasure in a Jar” The pair of spectacles sat on the bench, forgotten,lonely, yet with the sunny impression of past usefulness. Shelby looked around the park. A concrete path wound itself passed the bench. Grass fields butted up to either side of that path, the spectacles observing one of the […]

Flash | Roll the Bones

Game of bones by Sedeptra on DeviantArt “Roll the Bones” To play Soul & Bones with a dragon is to court death. Or if not death, a nasty set of burns from an ill-tempered sour loser. Dragons were sour losers. Even if you win a match of Soul & Bones, dragons never lose. Such is […]