Blood and Frosting
I’m back on schedule this week with another 500 Club post. I keep telling myself I’m going to use prompts from a different source one of these weeks, but the folks over at The Parking…
Beating the Dead Horse
This week’s bit of flash fiction is a little late. Late enough, in fact, that it is actually last week’s. I’m working, once, again, off a prompt from the kids over at the 500 Club. It was…
With Power
Typically when posting a piece of flash fiction based on a 500 Club prompt, I post the prompt right up front, too. That way you know what requirement I was trying to meet when pounding…
Crazy
In keeping with my commitment to write more flash fiction, here’s something based on a 500 Club prompt: “The new year marks ends and beginnings. Write 500 words where the last line mirrors the first.” Admittedly, it’s…
Black Friday
Something for the 500 Club, which I haven’t written for in entirely too long, and for Nimue who told me some time ago that all my 500 Club posts are sad. This one started out that…
Held Back
He’s back. I really should consider writing more about the unnamed assassin. Something more than 500 words. I find him disturbingly comforting. This is, however, is another flash fiction piece for the 500 Club. The prompt…
Lights Out
I wrote this one fast. I mean, fucking fast. Perhaps because it’s been a long day and this was therapeutic. The 500 Club prompt is this: Write 500 words “after the lights go out.” It…
Roses Are Blue
It’s been entirely too long since my last 500 Club post. So, here we go again. I don’t really know what to say about this one. The prompt was simply, “Write a scene involving the…
Missed Mark
I’ve decided to resurrect an old character for this week’s 500 Club. The prompt I’ve chosen is: “Write a scene that seems to send us in one direction, but switches up in a surprising way.…