Very Brief Fiction

Very short stories (average length, 48 words). Aiming for one-a-day. #FlashFiction, #MicroFiction. Follower and fan of #vss365.

[Very Brief Fiction @48ish]

The pub was so rowdy I could barely hear my date speak. So I took the #liberty of stopping time for us. It was great at first. Silence. Free beer.
But I couldn’t switch it back on.
It’s been weeks now. Trapped together in a timeless world.
And we’ve nothing in common. #vss365

[Very Brief Fiction @48ish]

The city has become unaffordable and I feel I only have two viable options left.
One: move to the suburbs, live in an affordable bungalow and become a commuter. Two: move to the Caribbean, live in a luxury shipwreck and become a mermaid.
#vss365 #shipwreck

[Liz 🕊 @LizSpeidel]

Caught in the in-between, where all feels temporary. She sets up camp in the middle, #paralyzed at the fork in the road. Cheap, plastic moments bring brief respites from grief, but her gnawing gut craves rich sustenance and growls, "choose to thrive, not merely survive." #vss365

[Sara Boccaccini Meadows @SaraBoccaccini]

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[Ink @InkHallows]

Monsters

The monsters in my head
Make friends with the beasts under my bed
I lay awake in search of the deep
My sixth night now without sleep
While rasping upon my door they keep
The clock tic toc’s its own personal rhyme
As ever keeping time
No longer can I stand this

[Ink @InkHallows]

This is…something.

[Elizabeth Spring HATHOR REBORN - OUT NOW @ESWarriorPoet]

Wow, and this is something I did not expect to see: Winds of Transformation is Trending Now in Gay and Lesbian Fiction?? What? Are people actually buying this book? I am astounded and amazed. LOL And so grateful to anyone who wants to read it 🙏 #writerslife #LGBT #queer #fantasy

[Very Brief Fiction @48ish]

@ESWarriorPoet I think so too 🤦🏼‍♀️😅
Thank you and thanks for your excellent prompts! 🙏

[Very Brief Fiction @48ish]

I knew he was having an affair.
I asked him to #end it and he refused, saying it was the best thing he’d ever done.
Eventually I worked it out: my love rival was my bad self.
It was a ménage a trois - his two selves and my bad one.
They invited my good self to join.
#vss365

[Elizabeth Spring HATHOR REBORN - OUT NOW @ESWarriorPoet]

15th May #vss365 #prompt #end

“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”

(Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness)
Thank you

[Nickerbacher @nickerbacher]

A friendly dragon finds his road to stand-up comedy bedeviled by dragon-slaying princes, a magical forest, and a demanding princess. https://t.co/dQ63YGR9EZ https://t.co/zJ05Hb7KQj
https://t.co/uAljwUuKo2 #dragons #comedy #kidslit

[Very Brief Fiction @48ish]

Those with a fear of the dark would avoid the terror and therefore miss the ensuing comfort from seeing what the might-have-been mirror would reflect.

We always assume it might have been so much better, had we been better.

But what if we had been a lot worse? #vss365

[Elizabeth Spring HATHOR REBORN - OUT NOW @ESWarriorPoet]

14th May #vss365 #prompt #reflect

“There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop.”

(U. LeGuin, from The Left Hand of Darkness)

[Jesse Wilson (Here today, gone tomorrow) @juslivinmadream]

You know, son, my father left me with this powerful, compassionate thought. People who are so concerned with building and maintaining a #barrier do so not solely because they want to keep others out but because they know their limitations and fear exposure. #vss365

[Elizabeth Spring HATHOR REBORN - OUT NOW @ESWarriorPoet]

She traced a finger along billions of threads, of different hues and colours. Some of them sparkled under her touch, others became muted. At last, the #weaver stopped: one thread pulsated with the kind of energy she was looking for. Unravelling it, she hummed of rebirth. #vss365

[Jeff Shaw: Just a writer trying to tell a tale. @jshaw_six]

I press against the membrane
The #Barrier between the living and the dead
I can hear my loved ones
And friends long passed
I want to tell them things I never said in life
That I miss them, and I love them
‘We know,’ they say
It was a dream
Or was it?
#vss365

[Derrick Mostert @DerrickMostert]

I read somewhere that 97% of all writers fail to complete their first book. This little nugget of information. Strangely motivated me to strive to be the 3% whom had completed their first novel.

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[Daniel Cummings @DanielC55186873]

She was ignoring him. He walked to the edge of her personal space bubble. Her back stiffened, her body humming with the #tension of an unplucked string. He tested her boundary, and she winced as a few discordant notes bounced off the floor. He sighed and slithered away.

#vss365