The little email sat in the outbox. He looked up at the big emails either side of him. They stared straight ahead, keen to ignore the little email. They carried Business Documents and Contracts, and considered themselves far too important to talk to him. The door opened and the big emails shot out of the […]
Flash Fiction
Friday Flash – Losing Battle
Gwinn didn’t want her father to die. She cowered in the corner of the hovel, trying to keep out of the way. Her father lay on the low table near the empty fireplace. An arrow pierced his side, just below his ribs. Blood oozed around the shaft. He kept scrabbling at the arrow, yelling curses […]
Friday Flash – The Duel
A veil of fog hid Browning Hall from view. Disappointed tourists in brightly-coloured raincoats milled around on the lawn. They’d come early to avoid the crowds, but the English weather thwarted their plans to see the house in all its splendor with no people in the way. Brenda Whitstaff weaved in and out of the […]
Friday Flash – No Flash
Bridget Ledersmark made her way through the group from the coach trip. The tourists clustered in the entrance to the exhibition. They clutched pamphlets detailing the history of the ancient Egyptian treasures on display. The attendant nodded to her – she’d already run through the rules with the group. No eating or drinking, no running, […]
Friday Flash – The Painted Man
This is written for Write Anything’s [Fiction] Friday Challenge #198 – Set your story in the 1880s, in a mid west, tumbleweed town. The doors of the bar open, the piano stops playing and all eyes are drawn to the figure in the doorway…… Now keep going. I walk along the street, my ornamental spurs […]
Friday Flash – Dead Man’s Hand III
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