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Doing the Right Thing

This piece of flash fiction appears in the November issue of The Wagon Magazine. Max looked down at his feet. Gazed back up at the desolate street. Watched as his breath plumed before him in the cold midnight air like dragon’s breath. He waited. How had he gotten to this point? He took hold of … Continue reading "Doing the Right Thing"

Rite of Passage

He sees the boy, pumping his legs as he soars through the air on a swing, and he almost smiles. How carefree and innocent the boy is, not yet aware of the world’s cruel designs. His own childhood is a distant thing, far removed from who and what he is today. The boy releases the … Continue reading "Rite of Passage"

The Book

There is a book. It is written not in English or Spanish, Greek or Latin, Hebrew or Arabic, but in the wordless language of Creation. It is a series of divine utterances, a wellspring of stars, energy and life. Once, it was passed from one keeper to the next, an unbroken succession rooted not in … Continue reading "The Book"

Labyrinth

A thick fog surrounded Gerald, billowing like smoke. The world beyond the Labyrinth lay bare before him, pale and insubstantial, faded like an old photograph. He’d navigated the Labyrinth’s perilous depths for centuries, a towering ancient structure of stone, iron, and magic. All the while he’d labored under the promise that someday, when he’d reached … Continue reading "Labyrinth"

Last Man Standing

Amos sat before a plate of sizzling sisig. He gazed out the window of a tiny hole-in-the-wall resto, watched the erratic traffic patterns of the Philippines that were still so foreign to him even after all these years. He sighed. It was a heavy dusty sigh. A sigh of resignation. A sigh of loss. Forced … Continue reading "Last Man Standing"

Video Flash Fiction #4: A Web of Ink and Paper

If you want to follow along with the text, you can find it here. Subscribe to receive a free copy of my short story The Sign. Your Email Address Jeff Coleman. All rights reserved. For reproduction rights, please contact the author (who happens to be a kind and eminently reasonable man.) Unless otherwise stated, … Continue reading "Video Flash Fiction #4: A Web of Ink and Paper"

Video Flash Fiction #1: An Immortal in Exile

A few weeks ago, I started posting videos on Facebook of me narrating my flash fiction. It was an experiment, and people seemed to like it, so I’ve decided to make it a weekly feature. For now, all I have is my webcam and my laptop’s internal microphone, so neither the video nor the audio … Continue reading "Video Flash Fiction #1: An Immortal in Exile"

GPS Signal Lost

This piece of flash fiction appears in the October issue of The Wagon Magazine. “Turn left on Miraloma Avenue.” It wasn’t the synthesized voice of Google Maps but of a genuine human female. Richard obeyed and turned left. He no longer questioned the GPS’s choices. “In one point two miles, turn right onto North Kraemer … Continue reading "GPS Signal Lost"

The Foolish Apprentice

“I told you how to do this already.” “Yes, sir,” said Jess, stumbling over the title, tiny pearlescent beads of sweat popping from his forehead. “Sorry. I forgot.” Amos sighed. Hovering over his apprentice, he watched with consternation as he made all the wrong weaves, a misstep he’d tried to correct over a dozen times … Continue reading "The Foolish Apprentice"

Life in Reverse

It was happening again. A cosmic hiccup. A single moment in time, repeated. The world moved around her, but in reverse. How many times had Stacy been through the same series of events? She might have been through a single iteration, or she might have been through a thousand. Forward. Then backward. Water rose from … Continue reading "Life in Reverse"