Category: flash fiction
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Two Bucks at Goodwill
“Life’s absurd isn’t it?” Charlie pushed his thick black framed glasses back onto the bridge of his nose before chugging the last of the whiskey. Greta never drank, she figured liquor wasn’t needed to enhance the crushing silences she felt. She never thought either of them needed liquor or drugs to take them over the…
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The Last Twinkies
WordPress Daily Prompt – Varnish The varnish on the wood steps is peeling away, cracking and splintering like the shards I’ve begun to feel in my soul. How long … I wonder. Has it always been that way or did it degrade suddenly and explosively? Just like this world? Just like me? Maybe it was…
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One-Way Street
WordPress Daily Prompt – One-Way In the dream I’m standing at the intersection again. There’s the green truck, barreling towards the stop sign. The driver, otherwise preoccupied, with his head lolling back and his eyes half closed will never even brake. The little red car will never see it coming, they will never realize he’s…
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Millie’s Gone
WordPress Daily Prompt – Fraud Moira packed each picture away carefully. Eventually Levee Harolds family would want some things but boxes of wedding pictures featuring his soon to be missing widow? Those weren’t likely to be the best souvenirs of his life. There would be some story about sweet Moira Harolds spinning out of control…
Kelley Farrell 