As some of you know, I have an ongoing love for FlashFiction aka Fiction you can read in a flash – I’ve written some that are as short as a tweet, and some up to 500 words. In the world of FlashFiction contests – It’s not just writing, it’s a puzzle, it’s trying to tell […]
Read More Indiglow – Written for ThursThreads – 9th Anniversary EditionAs you may know – I love flash fiction. The challenge is to write enough to tell a good story with a limited number of words (in this case 100-250 words) – The prompt ‘Can you give me an example – what follows Is my entry – Don’t talk to strangers “Hello, you’re on the […]
Read More Flash FictionI’m attending a writer’s retreat this weekend and one of the exercises for overcoming writer’s block was to look at a picture and put an element from the picture into your story – you don’t need to include it – but I think I’ll keep it… My picture prompt was a kitten… and this was […]
Read More A Year Among the Stars – AllegoryEvery week Siobhan Muir runs #ThursThreads – a Flash fiction contest that runs from 7 AM Time to 8 PM Mountain Time. The prompt is chosen from a line from the previous week’s winning tale, and you must include the prompt in the story – you cannot change the tense and the only thing you […]
Read More This week’s Thursday’s Threads entryDecember 27th, 2552 – Green Light; Red Light. Consociation Pilot Kat James Reporting Oh man, where do I begin? Yesterday – The others stayed with the Askmiri while I went over the ship to make sure I was ready for what could be a giant step for us – or one of those agonizing moments […]
Read More 362-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 18th, 2552 – Everything should come with a warning Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Baljatuun has been free-floating for some time now, but that gives us eyes and ears outside our bubble of a world. As near as I can tell for the rest of the pact – we haven’t been gone long enough […]
Read More 292-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 14th, 2552 – Stupid Time games Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting While I’m not as clear on what I found – while I’ve been working with the fleet along the edge of the void – an older, more experienced, hopefully, wilier version of me has been going over the fighter I misplaced. The only […]
Read More 288-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 12th, 2552 – Sidestep Decoy Pilot/Pest control Specialist/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting Today, I almost got myself blown up. Twice. Someone decided that there were a lot of raw resources on the planet of exploding insects and they needed more people collecting more samples – which meant they needed a bigger target for the […]
Read More 194-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 26th, 2552 The Ship That Wasn’t There. Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting And just when you think you have a line on everything, someone pulls the rug out from under you. Just one of those things – a pilot landing their craft, only the deck went one […]
Read More 117-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 20th, 2552 The Guns Come out. Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting Well, it seems our two mechanics had friends and they’ve given up the subtle approach. Yesterday it was explosives, before that, having a ship eat itself. Today it was guns. Okay, it was one gun, but […]
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