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July 21, 2022
More Worlds To Conquer
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 21 Challenge #9: Write a story with three or four challenge elements decided randomly via dice rolls. Optionally, roll each element twice and use all eight. My randomly determined challenge elements were: a protagonist who is an ancient/medieval warlord and a 13-year-old child, a banana and an ashtray featured prominently, […]
July 20, 2022
Noli Manere
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 20 “Okay,” said the vicar. “The grass on this side of the path needs a cut. But the grass on the other side of the path…” he gestured up the hill. “That’s a wildlife meadow. All the graves are over a century old, so nobody visits those anymore.” Sandra looked […]
July 19, 2022
Big Shoes To Fill
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 19 Challenge #8: Write a 55-word story that is a tragedy or a comedy. Optionally, it must be a tragicomedy. “I can do all the tricks!” pleaded Pupsy. “Give me a chance!” “You can do all the tricks,” conceded Doobles, arching his white-gloved fingers, “but you can’t do them effortlessly. […]
July 18, 2022
Beam Me Up, Petey
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 18 “I shall now make the first ever trip through the device,” announced Jeremy Jerickson. “Only to the employee break room, but trust me: it’s more impressive than it sounds.” There was a flutter of laughter from the small crowd assembled. Jeremy hit the button, waited while the glowing blue […]
July 17, 2022
The Ogre’s Audience
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 17 Once upon a time there was a grand parade. From sunrise on the first day to sunset on the third, a vast procession of peasants and princes, farmhands and florists, jugglers and judges marched from the great capital to the emperor’s country palace to give thanks for another year […]
July 16, 2022
One-Horse Town
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 16 Challenge #7: Write a story in a genre you’ve never written before (or failing that, one in which you rarely write). Optionally, it must subvert a popular trope of that genre. “This town ain’t big enough for the two of us.” “Well, that much we can agree on. There’s […]
I Have Merch Now!
That’s right – I’m selling out and starting up an online shop. Just check out the video below! I’ve started small with just five designs, but that’s enough to allow for literally hundreds of products. Here’s a small selection: I’m particularly happy with banana banana banana, which is why it features so prominently above, but […]
July 15, 2022
Upon a Once Time
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 15 Upon a once time, great dragon a rent the asunder world. Gods pieces the up gathered the, though but great they care took find to one each, disorder in total remained they. This seeing, laughed dragon the. “Undone never my can be work. Wrought I have evil an remain […]
July 14, 2022
The Tale of Pierre LePied
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 14 Challenge #6: Write a story containing five words chosen for you by another participant. Optionally, the story can combine words chosen by multiple other people. SubjugatedSandwich: cult, charcuterie, caltrops, chardonnay, cherub MMBaird: diamond, dinner, dancing, dread, dismal bookcrusher: late, lullaby, lexicon, lone, liar eV13il: recreate, red, rancid, rope, reaching […]
July 13, 2022
A Sound of Blunder
Flash Fiction Month 2022, Day 13 “Aha!” cried Bread Skull. “When I pull this lever, my grand scheme will come to fruition, and the world shall bend to a new power!” “You wouldn’t dare!” shouted Corporal Canada. “I was created by the combined efforts of a Nazi super-soldier program and a Vichy France boulangerie,” announced […]
