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Knowledge / Smack

When he heard Elena the Curious cast a spell of "smack" toward him, Krek the Swift didn't even counter that obvious taunt.

He had just enough time to curse his lack of nautical knowledge before the sailship hit him.

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A forty-year-old section chief—my first love, who looks just twenty.
On the night I gave him a computer and wine, he called me by my first name and held me close.

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The next anthology story arrives from the coming Halloween release of “ExWorlds 1: Strange Tales from Beyond the Infinite.” flashfictionperrymarkstratychuk.substack.com/p/cremation-... #horrortales #flashfiction #newbooks #booklaunch #booksky #bizarro #cozyhorror #weirdfiction

Is your role in life dictated by what you are? If you’re a fifteen foot-tall robot that transforms into a supercar, does that mean you have to pick up a laser gun and defend Earth from other robots? #harbor #vss365 #flashfiction #microfiction #scifi #sciencefiction #scifisky #satire #writesky

Each time I write a flash fiction story, I include an image on my Substack page. Usually, it's a photograph, but sometimes I do a drawing. Here are a few. #drawing #art #gothic #flashfiction

"It's company-issued," she said with a laugh.
The two sheets of paper that slipped from the paperback silently told the story of a lie that had persisted for a year.

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Thrilled to have a story in the latest issue of Sundog Lit. Such a fantastic publication! #flash #shortstory #writer #flashfiction

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Day 4 of Flashtober: a 100-word story in response to the word SCARF.

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Whilst I plan the rest of book 1, I have started a place for any #shortstories and #flashfiction. My first is called "The Prisoner".
Just me, practicing my writing and prose and trying out different styles.

raythormshorts.substack.com/p/the-prison...

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Two sentences filled with endless dread! 😱

Join the Flash Fiction Frenzy - every story crafted in the ShadowSphere features in Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond. 📚

The door's ajar, the shadows linger. What will you offer? 🔮

Check it out here: link in bio
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This is an entry I did for the @jerboalit.bsky.social #writing contest. It didn't place, but I liked it enough to do an audio recording of it. Prompts were Magical Realism and the character of a failure.

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The first victim of time travel was grammar.

Or is that will be?

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