Archive for the ‘Flash Fiction’ Category

As White as Snow - is a stand alone excerpt from a larger work that I submitted to the Small Axe Literary Competition which features West Indian writers.  While I want to post the entire short, due to competition regulations, I cannot.  But please do enjoy the excerpt. Dark came earlier now, pulling bedtime forward one [...]

Sydney observed him as he waited for her to come outside.  He looked calm-as if nothing in this world could possibly bother him.  Leaning back on his forearms, he raised his wrist to check the time. Great. Sydney thought.  He had somewhere else to be. Her heart hammered away in her chest, an upper tempo [...]

Off-Road Dreams

Posted: July 9, 2011 in Flash Fiction, Humor, Writing

An early morning dream… I’m chasing a faceless friend down the highway for coffee and I’m really happy that Betsy, my car, had her coffee (Penzoil Platinum Synthetic oil), this morning.  I’m tired but Betsy keeps me awake by blaring Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” – an apt selection when chasing down the [...]

I found this short hiding in a dark corner of my hard drive.  So, I decided to clean it up a bit and post it here just in time for Flash Friday.  Enjoy!!! I sat in my chair waiting.  Everyone else had gone leaving only Julian and me behind.  I’d never noticed how serene a [...]