Chuck’s weekly demand this time is to include four random items. Can you spot them all? They dragged him into the office by his arms. His legs felt weak; there was no way they could support his weight with them yanking him along. He was tossed onto the carpet like a sack of garbage. He… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Gods and Robbers
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Flash Fiction: The Message
This week’s prompt from Terribleminds had me using this random plot generator. It coughed up the following: The story starts when your protagonist tries to stop a robbery. Another character is a messenger who wants your protagonist dead. I hope you enjoy the result! The gunshot cut through the muted conversations and soft rock in… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Message
Flash Fiction: Bump In The Night Raven
From the Terribleminds challenge “Last Lines First” comes… “Truth be told, I’m not sure any of them are actually dead.” The mug of coffee shook in the engineer’s hands. The nails were chipped and the fingers calloused from years of cleaning, changing, tightening, and banging the many moving parts required for jump drives. The man… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Bump In The Night Raven
Flash Fiction: The Great Hall
With this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge over at Terribleminds being less than 50 words long, I turned to The Brainstormer for a subject on which to write a longer piece. It gave me “Hero to Kin”, “Viking”, and “bard”. Enjoy some last-minute scribbles! The fire danced and rose high in the hearth at the center… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Great Hall
Flash Fiction: Fenris and the Pilot
Art courtesy Valkyrie Power This week’s Flash has a two-fold purpose: to meet the weekly challenge over at Terribleminds (Down the TV Tropes Rabbit Hole, my random trope was “Amusing Alien”) and to provide some hot robot action for my friends at Geekadelphia. From the moment they got the distress signal, Jack knew the mission… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Fenris and the Pilot
Flash Fiction: The Last Saloon
After an unfortunate false start last night, I re-rolled for Chuck’s flash fiction challenge “Another Roll of the Dice“. The new rolls gave me the “Grindhouse” genre, with the elements “a troublesome dog” and “a hidden compartment”. The road stretched out into the inky darkness, pierced only by the headlights of the purring 1960 DeSoto… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Last Saloon
Flash Fiction: King's Landing's Hero
I rolled for the Terribleminds ABC meets XYZ challenge, and got “Game of Thrones” meets “Batman”. I’m not sure I stopped there. Night falls on King’s Landing. I find another dog with its guts spilling into the street. This dog was a person, once. Someone’s son. Maybe someone’s husband. Once a human being, now a… Continue reading Flash Fiction: King's Landing's Hero
Flash Fiction: The Cruelest Sting
This week’s Flash Fiction challenge from Terribleminds was for random words. The die of destiny chose mint, scorpion, republic. “Harry? Are you out here?” He didn’t look up from his rows of mint. The plants were coming in nicely, and he was happy with their color. The tomatoes had yet to fully ripen; he was… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Cruelest Sting
Flash Fiction: The Dagger of McNally
This week’s Terribleminds challenge is Must Include Psychic Powers, and the d20 of Destiny chose Psychometry. “This is dumb.” It was about the thirtieth time Victoria had said so. “It’s been in my family since before they came over. I know where it came from and who it was made for. And on top of… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Dagger of McNally
Flash Fiction: The Wandering Sage
The random fantasy character concept generator at the crux of this week’s Terribleminds Flash Fiction challenge gave me, among others, “a foul-mouthed sage is searching for a legendary weapon.” “If this infernal heat doesn’t kill me,” Balthazar growled, “I’m sure the desert would love to fill my lungs with sand.” “Why would the Equalizer be… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Wandering Sage
