50 Word Story | Bite-sized flash.
Air presses wet, heavy fingers. Piling shudders with hollow slaps. Cedar musk and impending rain. Drip, drip, patter. Clouds unclench. Gasps. Grimaces. Umbrella rainbows click clack against drizzling gray. Out on the churning inlet, a canoe sluices blustering waters. A shanty chimes. Rusty. Contented. At home in wind and weather.
Dark Fantasy | Silence crouched like a hunting beast over the packed chamber. All eyes strained toward the figure in chains at the foot of the cleric's dais. From the high platform, grim-faced members of the tribunal glared down at the small boy trembling before them...
Flash Humor | Declan Copperfield arrived before ivory gates inlaid with mother-of-pearl at quarter to three on a Thursday afternoon.
Sci-Fi Short | Gemma took her usual shortcut through the woods. Sweet pine exhales and gentle cricket song cleansed long hours soaked in engine fumes.
Sci-Fi Short | Singed gold furled in whiskered breakers from sunrise east to sunset west. Smoke, sculpted by raw winds and fed on failed crops, dipped and peaked at the horizon.