Marona Shrike returned from her first job with the severed right hand of a billionaire. Unceremoniously she threw it on the bounty table of the assassin’s...
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FFF25 Day 3 – Truth
“Well?” he asked. “What do you think?” Martineus’s eyes darted back to the page, scanning for something – anything – to like about the script in...
Continue reading...FFF25 Day 2 – New
It was the tenth rejection to come by paper bird that day. Thavma sat in her ex-boyfriend’s (ex-ex boyfriend? Too soon to tell) studio apartment and...
Continue reading...Flash Fiction February 2025 Day 1 – RAGE
cw for sexual harassment On Staccato’s first day playing the Salted Slug tavern, a man placed his hand on the small of her back on his...
Continue reading...Day 20 – Job
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” For the sixth time today, Amrita’s focus spirit was cleaning the toilets. She watched as...
Continue reading...Day 19 – Darkness
“Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.” Amber had been...
Continue reading...Day 18 – Folly
“Let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy.” It happened overnight. One day, just seeing a capital R in bright red...
Continue reading...Day 17 – Grief
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” The last time Faris spent a night in...
Continue reading...Day 16 – Forward
“‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’” The following is dedicated to my...
Continue reading...FFF Day Fourteen: Smudge It
“A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.” “You know how much I love your sister,” Bratwurzt said in a...
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