October 2018 Flash Fiction – Tales of the Normal

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Board games … HAUNTED BY GASLIGHT “Hurry up, roll. It’s your move.” “I’m reading the […]

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Wrapping presents … FUNDRAISER The pressure to volunteer increases yearly.  Now we sit in bookstores

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Signatures … DEFECTS Penmanship is very important.  Even something as simple as thoughtlessly signing one’s

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Making people smile … MINIMUM WAGE She had a retail job selling food products at

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  The smell of sunscreen … THAT WORD FOR WHEN YOU KNOW BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Bonfires … BONFIRES …A bronze plate etched with patterns, the kind of big metal platter

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Alone time … EXTROVERT She was out in her driveway again, in the dark, at

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Cute journals … THE JOURNAL Tanya received a journal for her twelfth birthday from her

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Gift cards … THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS He had been drifting away from people lately:

Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here.  You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing:  Plane tickets … L’APPEL DU VIDE If you had two free one-way plane tickets to