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Yesterday marked the beginning of March Flash Madness, a yearly event run by author J.M. McDermott. Each March, authors get pitted against each other. Two flash pieces the arena, one leaves alive and qualifies its writer for the next round.
I wrote a story about a Latina superhero with the power to cut dematerialize parts of her body and replicate them as energy constructs as many times as she wishes anywhere in space. Meet Shard: Read More March Flash Madness: The Flash Fic Death Matches Begin
How much does a soul weigh?
I can’t answer this question, but I can tell you how much sickness weighs. Nothing or at the least very close to nothing. My hands have touched a thousand bodies already and every time I pry illness free from the corpses that litter the cracked and abandoned roads of Bulgaria, which were cracked and looked abandoned long before the Earth ended, it came off with ease.
Yes, corruption, consumption and contagion weighed nothing. Read More Halo
Mother dearest, I can’t thank you enough for giving us the keys to grandmother’s house. After our home got swallowed…
I have had three or four failed attempts, but I’ve finally committed to one of Chuck Wendig’s flash challenges and last Friday’s theme was called “Ten Words Will Give You Five” – a random word challenge, where you had to incorporate five random words into a flash story. My words are undertaker, library, cube, dolphin and satellite. The result is the story “Self-fulfilling Prophecies”, in which I let loose a bit and just have fun with a few Bulgarian dimension jumpers on a job in the Library of Dead Books. Read More Flash Fiction Challenge: “Self-fulfilling Prophecies”