A man visits an unusual butcher shop The usual suspects are all there, quail, snake, boar, venison, and even buffalo. Each is neatly wrapped in brown wax paper and carefully sealed shut with strips of white butchers tape. The man’s olfactory senses are on overload. Most people, unaccustomed to the dizzyingly wide array of divergent… Continue reading Hershel’s Specialty Meats
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Death Among the Farmers
A Warrior Waits for Death in a Pub Alexandra sits at a tiny table in the pub for days, drinking endless flagons of mead. She unbuckled her heavy sword hours ago, but she has a notion that it is somewhere under the rickety table. Frequently, Alexandra will hurl some insult or challenge to the others… Continue reading Death Among the Farmers
Empty Garden
A man wakes in an apartment covered with notes. INTRODUCTION As usual, it takes the man nearly 30 minutes to panic. By then, he has noticed the signs and notes. His apartment walls are covered with them, hundreds if not thousands of short and not so short messages to him. Somehow he intuits that he… Continue reading Empty Garden
What I Learned From My 100 Day Flash Challenge
Lessons learned, my process, my 24 Favorites, and more. Introduction From March 18 — June 26, 2021, I began and completed my first ever 100-day flash fiction challenge. The goal I’d set for myself is self-explanatory. For one hundred days straight, I would write, edit, and publish a flash fiction story, more or… Continue reading What I Learned From My 100 Day Flash Challenge
My 100-Day Flash Challenge Part 4
Days 76 – 100 On March 18, 2021, I began a crazy adventure. That was the day I started my 100-day flash fiction challenge. My goal was to write, edit, publish one story per day for one hundred days. Below, I summarize the fourth 25 days of my challenge. The Final 25 Stories The End… Continue reading My 100-Day Flash Challenge Part 4
My 100-Day Flash Challenge Part 3
Days 51 – 75 On March 18, 2021, I began a crazy adventure. That was the day I started my 100-day flash fiction challenge. My goal was to write, edit, publish one story per day for one hundred days. Below, I summarize the third 25 days of my challenge. The Third 25 Stories Clive AND… Continue reading My 100-Day Flash Challenge Part 3
My 100-Day Flash Challenge Part 2
Days 26 – 50 On March 18, 2021, I began a crazy adventure. That was the day I started my 100-day flash fiction challenge. My goal was to write, edit, publish one story per day for one hundred days. Below, I summarize the second 25 days of my challenge. The Second 25 Stories Memory Broken… Continue reading My 100-Day Flash Challenge Part 2
A Scorpionic Angle of Perception
Flash Fiction Challenge 100 – Day 99 I feel I’m not explaining it well to my friend Chris, so I start again. “Your staircase becomes the horizon, the only perfectly horizontal line one can find on an astrological natal birth chart. It’s the line that bisects the chart and runs from the ascendant,… Continue reading A Scorpionic Angle of Perception
Zach
Flash Fiction Challenge 100 – Day 92 “I told you we need to use the stopper. It skitters away too quickly otherwise. I already regret sharing my affliction with Zach. The instant I approached his bathroom vanity sink, he pulled the plug from the basin and refused to let me have it; he’s… Continue reading Zach
Zeke Vs Zombies
Flash Fiction Challenge 100 – Day 88 Zeke shrugs the backpack off and makes himself as comfortable as he can. He is lying on top of a jungle gym. The zees (Zeke refuses to call them zombies) can’t climb. He’s only seven feet above the asphalt surface of the playground, but he knows… Continue reading Zeke Vs Zombies
Stories by Shawn 