I know some writers are exceptionally wary of posting any part of an unpublished work online, but I’m not too worried about this one: this is the last excerpt from “Making Waves” I’m going to post, which adds up to…
Category: 512words
Friday Flash Fiction: “Temporal Mechanics”
I seriously considered using this image as the “illustration” for this week’s story, but I didn’t think anybody would get it. Read “Temporal Mechanics” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Scrying is Believing”
I have been sick this week, but I did manage to start expanding last week’s 512 into a longer story. Here’s an abbreviated scene from that new piece. Read “Scrying is Believing” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Making Waves”
What would you get if you crossed The Hunt for Red October with H.P. Lovecraft? And maybe set it in the same world as “Godwin’s Law?” Possibly something like this. Read “Making Waves” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”
With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein. Read “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “HauntFAIL”
Oh, those darn Ghosts of Earth and their shenanigans. Read “HauntFAIL” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Bridge and Tunnel”
What happens when you mash up Stargate and Lost in Translation? Possibly something like this. Read “Bridge and Tunnel” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “So is This a Game or Not”
As a sixteen-year veteran of multiple puzzle hunts (Christ, has it really been that long?), I have heard the various pieces of this particular conversation–in spirit, if not verbatim–more times than I can count. Read “So is This a Game…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Nice Day for a Drive”
Herewith, an excerpt from my other Clarion UCSD 2012 application story. And as soon as they reject me (again), this one’s going to, I don’t know, let’s say Asimov’s. Because it involves robots and shit. Read “Nice Day for a…
Friday Flash Fiction: “So Then I Met These Aliens”
This is an excerpt from one of my two Clarion UCSD application stories this year, and as soon as they reject me, it’s going off to Clarkesworld. Whee! Read “So Then I Met These Aliens” at 512 Words or Fewer