Flash Friday # 12: Aftermath

 

 

(An earlier version of this story was originally published in Ideomancer)


Aftermath


By Lazette Gifford

Copyright 2012, Lazette Gifford


A bird flew out of the brown, leafless bush. Tom hadn't seen an animal in years, not a wild one. The small, brownish bird wouldn't have been counted as much more than a nuisance before the flares. Now he watched with his heart beating hard as