This week, Terribleminds tasked us with identifying the structures described in this Wired article. They are beautiful and unexplained. Here’s my take. Enjoy! The Scout ran at full stride down the corridor to the office of the Overseer. The General was already there, talking about the positioning of the automated drones around the blue-brown world… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Reports From The Surface
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Flash Fiction: Remembering Bub
For the Terribleminds challenge, “Another Ten Words“. Even when he was human, he never cared for funerals. Death was an uncomfortable subject for many mortals, and funerals tended to bring an individual face to face with the specter of mortality, especially in violent circles. He stayed back from the front of the church’s sanctuary, where… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Remembering Bub
Flash Fiction: Destroyer's Lament
For the challenge Subgenre Frankenstein over at Terribleminds. Don’t ask me how they found me. I’d changed my name, moved across the country, started over with a new job, a new life. I stayed off of the grid, paid for things in cash, and wasn’t exactly on the right side of the law. I’d never… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Destroyer's Lament
Flash Fiction: Dust's Cape
One of the titles generated by the Random Story Title Generator for this Terribleminds challenge inspired the following. The people passing by on the street probably saw her as one of Boston’s countless bohemian young people. Between the purple in her hair and the rings in her lip, it was an easy mistake to make,… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Dust's Cape
Flash Fiction: Magnum Damage
Courtesy Alistair Cunningham For the Terribleminds challenge, Somethingpunk. I think this qualifies more as laserpunk than cyberpunk, but you be the judge. Jack Magnum was never more at home than he was on the ground, a warm beamer in his hand, goons on his tail. The incandescent neon of the street illumination and the various… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Magnum Damage
Flash Fiction: Gods and Robbers
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
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: 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
