Tag: flash fiction
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The Binary Breakfast | One-Hundred-Word Story
This is the third installment in The Inconvenient Apocalypse. If you’re just joining Sarah’s cosmic morning routine, catch up on Part 1: Off Script and Part 2: Extinction with a Side of Coffee. When Sarah teleports to a local Starbucks with her alien sidekick Bernie, she’s surprised to find no line inside. Plus, there are…
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Extinction with a Side of Coffee | One-Hundred-Word Story
This is the second installment in The Inconvenient Apocalypse. If you missed the cliffhanger in part one, you can catch up on Off Script first! Centara is such a beautiful planet, but Sarah doesn’t know how she got there. Her alien concierge, Bernie, explains. “You’ve been brought to the future, to a world once known…
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Off Script | Fifty-Word Story
Every morning it’s the same thing: a cup of coffee with a bagel and a banana. Predictability is her preference. Until one groggy-eyed day, she looked in the cupboard and there was no coffee and no bagels and no bananas. “What planet is this?!” “Centara 4,” replied the large-headed alien. If you enjoy micro poetry,…
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Untangled | One-Hundred-Word Story
Walking on the beach helped Ron build his strength, after the left side of his body was debilitated by a stroke. All sorts of things wash up on the seashore: driftwood, seaweed, and dead fish, to name a few. One morning, he found something peculiar: a ball of tangled steel wire. He took it home…
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The Flower Bed | Six-Word Story
My attempt to tell a complete story in six words.
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Local Pickup Only | One-Hundred-Word Story
Note: This is the fourth and final installment of Tom’s time-travel saga. Read the complete series here:Part One: As IsPart Two: User ErrorPart Three: Warm Reception The clock is ticking for Tom, who arrived by mistake in 2026 BC at an Armenian sheep pasture. He can see torches in the distance, coming from a village.…
