Cause and effect
Searchlights, sirens, screams — night had changed from glitz and neon to smoke and death. Was it ISIS or Al-Qaeda? Right or left? Many claimed they did it. Other wanted […]
Category Archives: flashfiction
Being busy caring
Holidays. The street is filled by shoppers. They have to show they care. They have gifts to buy for nieces and for cousins. There are gifts to wrap, to ship […]
Not another apidestra
Alone — a jardiniere without its aspidistra. Abigail sighed. Herbert had not been the best catch in the pond, but he had left her. She should have ended it instead. […]
From stealth to murder.
I don’t need anything really. Certainly not cutlery. But I watch them eating and their forks are tantalizing. The man drinks ale — good — that will make him sluggish. […]
Birdbrain
They called me birdbrain. I was their punchbag and aunt Sally. I tried my best to be complacent. All in vain — they left me shipwrecked to my failures. I […]
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