Category: flash fiction
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Flash Fiction: History
“I had not expected you to be here, sir.” I said and I wanted to leave him to his moment of solitude, a moment which he would have seldom time to enjoy. He was standing near the balcony overlooking the boulevard that was in front the house. He was his usually tall self, slender to…
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Silly laws 2: moose
This was a flash version. Unfortunately for the prosecution, Raine Moya got the help of the defense attorney Bulwark Trotski. Raine Moya had been arrested together with her pilot after the latter had crashed landed their plane at Nowaki Airport. One of the two engines had blown and they had barely managed to reach…
Merit Coba
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Signs of life 4: Fuzz
“No!” Meena, the eldest of the two daughters said with an indignant expression on her face when her parents proposed to go to the market fair. Eve, the youngest, fell into an uncomfortable silence squeezing a plushie against her chest. She did not dare to go against her older sisters opinion, yet she feared her…
Merit Coba
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Flash: Collateral
Jonathan Ames had saluted with a blank expression on his face after they had pinned up his medal. “Well done, Captain.” the general had said, a man Ames had only known by name. “A vital contribution to the war against terrorism. ” He remembered that moment every time they held their ceremony at the veterans…
Merit Coba
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Mr Perfect
Sarah sat at her favorite table in that little Italian restaurant on the corner of Sixth Street and Main when Mr Perfect walked in. Of course, he did not wear a tag that said he was Mr Perfect, but she knew he was the moment she saw him. He was slender and dressed in a…
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Magnificent(for Sandor)
When, during the Crimean war, an English cavalry unit frontally charged a Russian line of guns, and got massacred in the process, the French general Bosquet (witness to this debacle) remarked that ‘ it is magnificent, but it is not war.’. This quote was on first Lieutenant John Maltowes mind when sixty two years later,…
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Capricorn Two
The red dust took some time to settle after they landed but that did not dampen their excitement. “Who goes first?” Tomi voiced their question.. Mission control had told them who would go first, but in the face of history, far off Earth had no say. Marchand stepped forward, but Indra tripped him. The crew…
Merit Coba
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Men!
“Let’s ask the woman in our midst.” His Most Divine Emperor Maximilian the third said. The gathered nobles of the realm, fitted in their shiniest armors adorned with silver and gold, turned their gazes towards her. Eveline, envoy of the empress-mother, looked at the princess Isobel, who was laying at the feet of the emperor.…
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In memoriam
“So you finally set yourself to it?” His neighbors voice rumbled. He was a big fellow, with a large beard. He was the kind that roared when he laughed or when he downed too many beers at the pub down the road. James looked up and took in the solid shape that loomed over the…
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