Tag: flash fiction
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Fully Charged | Fifty-Word Story
Doug awoke one morning expecting to top off all his digital devices. Much to his surprise, he discovered they were each charged to one-hundred percent. “What’s going on?” he said out loud. “They weren’t like this last night.” Charlie, the inquisitive squirrel monkey, brought Doug a charging brick and purred.
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Two Halves | One-Hundred-Word Story
The neighbors looked forward to seeing Diego every morning, walking his Great Pyrenees. Four blocks down and four back, like clockwork. When the retired Army 1st Sergeant died, the community grieved for both Anna, his widow, and for Max, who had lost his walking buddy. Yet, one morning, the most amazing thing happened. A long-time…
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The Book Lady | Two-Hundred-Word Story
When my teenage son needed a copy of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, someone suggested I check with a shop that was stuffed from floor to ceiling with used books. Arriving at the location, I was surprised to find a small wood-framed house. The front door creaked open, jingling a bell, and a…
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Stenciled Dreams | One-Hundred-Word Story
A long-retired farmer found his first “gift from the heavens,” as he calls it, when it fell from orbit and landed in his field. Since then, he has recovered several more pieces of space junk on his back forty. He’s out in the barn most evenings, welding and hammering, building a spacecraft. Harold plans to…
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Paved Around | Fifty-Word Story
The shade feels old under the canopy of the tall oak that stands proudly in the middle of a brick street. I walked up to its massive trunk, running my hands across the burled bark. “I’m glad they never cut you down.” The grand tree didn’t answer, or need to.
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Return to Origin | One-Hundred-Word Story
This is the fourth and final installment in The Inconvenient Apocalypse. If you missed the previous parts of Sarah’s cosmic breakfast saga, catch up on Part 1: Off Script, Part 2: Extinction with a Side of Coffee, and Part 3: The Binary Breakfast. Bernie’s Log — Stardate 2312: The humanoid who identifies as Sarah is…
