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January 08, 2006
Flash Fiction Revisited
I recently discovered that my old diaryland account was deactivated. It wasn't a total loss, but I don't want to loose stuff I posted there. I'll be slowly adding that content to falseauthority.com so I don't loose it. Here are my flash fiction stories that I posted. Feel free to re-comment, I still like critiques.
Waxed (50 Words)
Originally posted 2004-06-01, 11:30pm.
He breathed deeply, anticipating the ordeal, the pain, the blood. The imagined sound of the fibers ripping echoed through his head. He would meet his enemies in battle. Millions of them. Mindless drones that he would fight alone. His only weapon: fifty yards of waxed string. With discipline, he flossed.
The Alley (100 Words)
Originally posted 2003-09-24, 5:34pm.
I would‘ve expected something dramatic, maybe my life flashing before my eyes, but my heart didn’t so much as skip when I felt her track-marked arm press a cold steel tube behind my ear. She whispered, cold and rehearsed, “Don’t move, muthafucka!” A spotlight clicked on and immediately cast the shadow of a stocky cop and a pregnant woman on the graffitied wall. I cringed at the rapport of the bullet and heard the sound of her skull hitting the pavement. My partner told the paramedics to take their time and I wondered if we’d done the kid a favor.
Turdleduck (100 Words)
Originally posted 2002-11-12, 10:37pm from New Orleans.
I gawked in terror as the giant snapping turtle circled around for another pass. His mouth opened and inside was gleaming white with a red forked tongue. I blinked and tried to regain focus but his wings kept lifting dust into my eyes. I looked at the person next to me with tears streaming down my face. “He’s coming for you,” he said. I had to warn my comrades! Summoning all my strength I screamed, “Turtle! Duck!”
The man gently laid me back into my stretcher. “Don’t worry son,” he said, “you’re going to be just fine. Here’s some morphine…”
Posted by james at January 8, 2006 01:20 PM