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Category Archive: Friday Fictioneers

Grand-père Jacques

“Who is that man in all the pictures, Mama?” “He was your grandfather.” She grips her purse. “My […]

October 3, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers

Everybody Has a Talent

Mrs. Stouffer fussed around the dessert table with shakers of Christmas glitter-candy, liberally dusting everything in sight with […]

September 26, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Friday Fictioneers

Those Same Reasons

I swore as I walked in that this would be the last time. I’d sworn this before, of […]

September 19, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Friday Fictioneers

Not For Sale

He was thin, the black coat so stiff it might have been snipped from tin. Wiry like her […]

September 12, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Friday Fictioneers

Argonauts

By the middle of our second year it was down to us and two other teams. Five continents, […]

September 5, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers

Losing Tuesday

I wait at Jack’s for my client, glad he’s late because I can have one or two more […]

August 15, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers

Before The Coroner Was Called

I take my coffee out onto the front porch to watch the neighborhood go about its morning. I […]

August 8, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers

Blackberries

The blackberries had overgrown Wayne’s entire yard, twining their malevolent thorns between fences and over trees, consuming the […]

August 1, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Friday Fictioneers

A Dismal Sheen

He led me blindfolded onto the quay. “I know you bought a boat, Seth.” “Humor me,” he said. […]

July 25, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers

Malinger

Kenny held his reading lamp to his forehead until the last possible minute. He heard her coming down […]

July 18, 2018 Fiction Prompts, Friday Fictioneers

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