Friday Flash Fics — Road Tripping in the End of the World

I finally felt a stirring of the muse this week for Friday Flash Fics, and it's probably no surprise it is a revisit. This one goes back to Benoit and Ray from The End of the World As We Know It, my viral-outbreak story that niggles at the back of my mind now and then. …

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September Flash Fiction Draw Roundup

Ah, September! The ninth collection of stories! Before anything else, though, I want to say "Thank you" to everyone who sent messages of support. Coach has left a giant husky-sized hole in our life, and everything else took a dive in the meanwhile. So, thank you. Now, what's this? If you've not bumped into these …

Home — A Flash Fiction Draw Challenge

Here’s my entry for the September Flash Fiction Draw Challenge (the post for the original September draw is here). In case you didn’t know about this challenge, there’s a video here explaining (and showing the monthly draw), but the quick version is this: I use three suits from a deck of cards to randomly put together a genre …

September Flash Fiction Draw

September! Today is the first Monday of the month, so I dug out my Geek & Sundry playing cards and did the draw for the monthly challenge. Pardon, you might say? Well, if you're new to these here parts, the deal is this: I set a challenge to myself (and anyone else who wanted to …

Friday Flash Fics — Lost

This week's Friday Flash Fics struck me as exactly the kind of guy I pictured as Luke, from 'The Psychometry of Snow' (one of the stories in Of Echoes Born). So I rolled with that. The mountains in the background made me think of B.C. again, where Luke likes to visit between his other work, …

Friday Flash Fics — Message

Today's  Friday Flash Fics picture seemed straightforward enough until I noticed the little dark line that could have been a burned edge to the paper, and then the lighting on the whole thing struck me, and today's story happened. Message I can’t live like this. He can’t ask me to live like this. I won’t …