Flash Fiction &
Short Stories

~~ brief moments in little worlds ~~

  • Autonomy

    Autonomy

    4–6 minutes

    Why do I even bother? No, stop that. What I am doing is important. Sure, I may be a cog in a machine, but I am a VITAL cog. And it is a GREAT machine! Okay, maybe not a VITAL cog. But REALLY HELPFUL certainly! Others could do what I do, but it takes a Read more

  • EXIT

    EXIT

    12–18 minutes

             A long white hallway stretched out behind them, peppered with large steel doors and lit in a lurid glow by the evenly-spaced incandescent bulbs in the ceiling. Some of these doors had not been opened in a long time. This was a good thing, thought Adam Mikkelsen. If ‘reason’ and ‘caution’ were virtues worth Read more

  • The OSVTC

    The OSVTC

    15–23 minutes

             “I don’t believe it,” he rumbled, while putting his cigarette out in the dusty ashtray. The well-worn disposal mirrored the overall cleanliness of the bar, which had half-rusted iron shelving and enough of a lingering smell to make you think that the patrons were going for a ‘before-air-freshener-was-invented’ kind of rustic vibe.          “I Read more