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Self-Defeating Prophecy

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 13 Challenge #6: Write a story featuring a palindromic sentence, with a word count that is a palindrome. “Banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana […]

Once Upon Some Other Time

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 12 “Golly,” said Little Red Riding Hood, who had now been off the path picking flowers for quite some time. “This sure is an uneventful walk to Grandmama’s house.” The woods were silent in response, save for a lone pidgeon Coo-COO-coo-ing in the distance. “Yep.” Little Red Riding Hood swung […]

How to Tell if a Painting Is Valuable

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 11 Challenge #5: Write a story with challenge criteria determined by dice rolls. Mine were to give it the title of a random wikiHow article (and base the story on it), and to have the exact number of characters determined by the roll of a single die. (I rolled a […]

The Devil Comes to Cutietown

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 10 It was a bright, sunny day when the devil came to Cutietown. He arrived on a National Express coach and he had a camera around his neck. Cuddles McPlush watched as he made his way towards the hotel, and asked his wife—very politely—to put on a fresh pot of […]

A Loyalty Disowned

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 9 Challenge #4: Write a story based on a song suggested by another participant. Optionally, the story must be based on more than one such song. This piece was based on San Fermin’s Cairo (suggested by WizardandGalaxy) and Poets of the Fall’s 15 Min Flame (suggested by WindySilver). No steady […]

The Torment of Ufgash

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 8 “Faster, you dogs!” roared Ufgash to the loping crowd. “The Dark Master don’t take kindly to dawdlers!” But it was not the Dark Master who was responsible for the fear gnawing in his own stomach. As he stood on the rocky outcrop, seeming to survey his troops, he was […]

Keeping Up with the Kravlanians

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 7 The vessel appeared suddenly. One moment the sky above the Netherlands was completely empty, the next it was filled entirely by a featureless grey surface that stretched from horizon to horizon like an inverted car park in the heavens. Out of this a small, egg-shaped craft descended onto the […]

Taking the Cake

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 6 Challenge #3: Write a story in which the first word is the longest and the last word is the shortest. It must include 15 non-English words or phrases, which optionally may not include any proper nouns. “Apfelmushörnchen assault team, attack!” cried Bread Skull, directing his pastry henchmen towards the […]

The Elf and the Shoemaker

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 5 There once was a shoemaker, honest and hard-working but despite all this very poor. Little by little he was forced to sell all his possessions, until at last he had nothing in the world but enough leather to make one pair of shoes. Having cut the leather, ready to […]

Your Humble Servant

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 4 Challenge #2: Write an epistolary story with an unreliable narrator. June 7th, 1846 Madame Crevier, I hope your journey has been a pleasant one. Please find enclosed the expected correspondence regarding the railway stock: it did, as a matter of fact, arrive mere minutes after your departure. I trust […]