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Flash Fiction Challenge: Pick a Sentence and Go

Once again we have Chuck Wendig to thank for today’s post. His Flash Fiction Challenges are often awesome inspirations; this week’s theme was assisted by last week’s theme, in which over 500 people came up with an opening line. This … Continue reading

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Friday Flash Fiction

Challenge from Chuck Wendig wherein the story must be told using social media. I haven’t got a damned clue if I did it ‘right’ but I liked it, so. [AUTHOR’S NOTE: This was supposed to go up before noon, because … Continue reading

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The Drop

She looks like she might cry, and that seems to make her more angry than anything else. Thin hands, gloved except for fingertips, curled into whiteknuckled fists. “You… You’re just trying to –” Gritted teeth and pale face except for … Continue reading

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Everything Hurt

Her hands curled around the broken bits of things; she sifted through the wreckage with her limbs like a child doing a snow angel, occasionally, wiping bloody tears from her cheeks, coughing out brickdust and wallboard from the bottom of … Continue reading

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Lindsey Hates Group

The ring of people seated in folding chairs is a familiar enough scene, evoking not collaboration and group comfort but instead a sense of both persecution and loathing. Lindsey hates Group. The dull-eyed men and women sitting in the chairs … Continue reading

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