Category: Flash Fiction
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The Golden Girls of Pain
Reddit Writing Prompt: A satanic death metal band is shocked after they summon an angel instead of a demon. They are even more shocked when the angel decides to join their band. *** “Ready?” Margaret asked. The rest of the band nodded gravely and watched as she lit the last candle. On the floor before…
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Brennan & Brennan
Writing Prompt: A lawyer uses his third wish to free the genie from its bottle. As a gesture of thanks, the genie now helps this lawyer win every single case by finding loopholes to exploit. *** “Is that thing real?” Sunlight reflected off the lustre of the brass all of a sudden, and Brennan had…
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Food Baby
Reddit Writing Prompt: Food baby, but it functions like a regular pregnancy. *** “Will you get off Reddit already,” Bianca growled. “Couple more minutes, just checking if there’s a decent writing prompt posted yet,” I said. She knew it was no use arguing. We’d already been there, both our cases clearly expressed and refined to…
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The Bomb
The Terminator actually did get a few things right. The enemy’s control of the battlefront; the balance of hope in the face of futility… The desperate attempts to tip the balance of an unwinnable war. But we were a long way off time-travel; there was no easy route to prevention. Ours was a mission purely…
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Zombies, Dentists & Penguins
It was more boarded-up doors over the hill. Patches of sundried blood along footpaths; abandoned cars with broken windshields as far as he could see; and so many corpses it was impossible to count them. Same shit, different day. Our hero had done reconnaissance hundreds of times by then, so familiar with the routine that…
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Bella
It was desolation for miles. The network of trenches had caved in to the west, and the bodies of the men that tried to escape the blast were half buried in dirt. Northward were the crossed posts holding up the tangles of barbed wire, where hunched silhouettes of stumbling figures were moving in the haze…
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Transmutation
I could never understand transmutation before the accident happened. And believe you me, I tried. I tried to comprehend it like many of you do. The endless quest for immortality so many find themselves on. You know, how nothing really dies. How it only changes form. See they teach about Newton’s First Law of Motion…
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