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July 19, 2019
The Oracle
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 18 Challenge #8: Produce a story in collaboration with two other writers. Each section of the collaboration must focus primarily on a different sense and, optionally, the story must take the form of a 369er. This story was produced in collaboration with squanpie and snickiedude. It was an honour to […]
July 17, 2019
Wilson’s Snack Pies: They’re Delicious!
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 17 “Password?” grunted the bouncer through the metal shutter. “Charlton Heston.” There was the sound of a bolt being drawn. The door swung open. Grant tipped his hat and made his way down towards the basement, the “Oontz, oontz, oontz” of the music getting louder with every step. Larry was […]
July 16, 2019
The ALF/Elf Thing
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 16 Challenge #7: Write a story in which an item is used in an unusal manner. The story must take place while characters are having a drink. “Let ElfCon 2019 begin!” cried Legolas, raising the Horn of Gondor high above his head. He then lowered the instrument to his lips […]
July 15, 2019
A Wretched Hive of Scum and Pedantry
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 15 “This is the ship that did the Sselek run in less than twelve parsecs.” “Isn’t a parsec a unit of distance rather than time?” “Come now, Buke,” put in Ken Benobi. “I’m sure that what this dashing space-rogue means is that he managed to take a particularly dangerous shortcut, […]
July 14, 2019
Refusing the Call
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 12 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Her name was Bolba Biggins and she was very annoyed because just this week she had been obliged to answer the door for one wizard, thirteen dwarves, and sixty-seven RSVPs to some old geezer’s eleventy-first birthday party. Fortunately, the […]
July 13, 2019
Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need References
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 13 Challenge #6*: Write a story involving time travel at least two hundred years into the past, featuring something that was previously dead. The story must also include two well defined choices, only one of which may be answered verbally. Optionally, the ending must reveal whether or not the travellers […]
July 12, 2019
The Wizard and the Sundry Others
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 12 Long ago in a land far distant, there lived a travelling wizard sworn to serve all creatures. One day, this wizard came to hear of a troll beneath a bridge who was threatening travellers out of their coin. And so he resolved to find this troll, and see if […]
July 11, 2019
The King and the Golden Serpent
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 11 Challenge #5: Write a story including a plan that fails because of an unforseen and inherent flaw. It must include a character and setting based on two tarot cards chosen at random from the Major Arcana. Optionally, a phone call must be made at some point. My two cards […]
July 10, 2019
Steamed Hams, but It’s a Homeric Epic
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 10 O Muse! Sing of Seymour, and his crazy explanations. Seymour, his boasts so outlandish that Chalmers must eat of the lotus ere he suffer them. Verily, when the superintendent hears the principal’s exaggerations, the city shall be riven with strife. Our tale begins at the end of a great […]
July 9, 2019
Lethe
Flash Fiction Month 2019, Day 9 Challenge #4: Write a story featuring at least one petty deity, but no well known ones. It must include at least one of the following elements: spectacular shoes, a coin flip, moving vehicles, a rite of passage, coconuts. Also, at least one of these: no shoes allowed, strange definitions […]
