ON A TRAIN – #flashfictionmagic 🚂🚂 🚂 CHOOO! The deep throated train whistle split the air and Marta clenched her teeth to keep from muttering a dark word. “Bein’ cursed doesn’t need to keep you from keeping your manners.” She could hear Grandmam’s voice as if she stood by Marta’s shoulder. But as the air […]
DESERTED ISLAND – #flashfictionmagic
DESERTED ISLAND – #flashfictionmagic “Give me that.” Pop snatched for the stub of chalk but Max danced backward toward the chalkboard. “This.” She smudged out a numeral and replaced it with another. “Have you tried this?” Pop scowled, but his eyes were sparkling. “I’m the physicist. You’re the kid. You’re supposed to be watching.” He […]
THE CLOUDS – #flashfictionmagic
THE CLOUDS – #flashfictionmagic 🌫🌫🌫 They fell in the softest caress, a long muffled hiss, rising again like amorphous balls before settling in a wreath around her house. They crowded her windows, seeping inside with cold white fingers. She woke in the middle of this and thought all the rain in the world was falling at […]
RED ROSE – #flashfictionmagic
RED ROSE – #flashfictionmagic 🥀🥀🥀 Bell had always thought the scent of a red rose looked like iniquity. The one she looked at now had a dozen silky petals unfolding like red bedsheets, its tiny cloud of fragrance curved and dark as blood along its edges. It lay at the edge of her flower stand, […]
JUNE MOON – #flashfictionmagic
JUNE MOON – #flashfictionmagic “Am I too late?” Emily startled at the breathless male voice at her shoulder. Under the star studded sky, he was nearly invisible in a dark shirt. His eyes looked like moons themselves as he surveyed the small crowd scattered over the hill. The June Moon hung low and shimmering, almost […]
