From Flash Fiction to Shorts, these are the quick reads that one can enjoy when they have but a moment.
FLASH FICTIONS:
PUBLISHED OR SIGNED:
A Breath So Sweet
TAGS: Horror–Comedy, Science Fiction
From Black Hare Press, a quick, 100-word story that goes by in a flash. Click Here to read.
A Kernel of Truth
TAGS: Comedy, Slice of Life
Check out Brian Hagan’s debut podcast, where he reads two flash fictions, The Jungle Horror, and my own scary story involving corn stuck in one’s teeth, A Kernel of Truth.
Click on the image below to go listen.
Cold Vengeance
TAGS: Flash, Science Fic
Find it in Shameless Plugs Podcast Episode 40. Listen Here
Countdown to Destruction
TAGS: Flash
Found in Black Hare Press Worlds Anthology
Exosphere
TAGS: Flash
Found in Black Hare Press Worlds Anthology
Inorganic
TAGS: Flash
Found in Black Hare Press Worlds Anthology
Juste Pour Rire
TAGS: Flash
Found in Black Hare Press Worlds Anthology
Two
TAGS: Flash
Found in Black Hare Press Worlds Anthology
Why She Ate the Birds
TAGS: Poetry
Why She Ate the Birds is available from Written Rock‘s Leaves of the Poet Tree Season Two edited by Andrew Aitken
SHORT STORIES:
PUBLISHED OR SIGNED:
A Choice in Exile
TAGS: Apocalypse, disease, drama
When a disease destroys humanity, a test subject must decide whether to stay in the safety of isolation or join humanity in its final days.
Having spent the better part of a year in isolation, “Deuce” is notified a month before his release that humanity is dying. The controls for his cell are released to him, and as the countdown to his original date of freedom draws near, Deuce tries to find reasons to continue existing.
Status: Available in Scary Diary Press‘ Mother’s Revenge anthology.
A Soul Removed
TAGS: Anthro, Body Horror, Violence, Religion, Erotic Relations.
When a religious experience awakens his guilt, a young churchgoer takes ‘If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away.’ A little too literally.
Status: Now available from Thurston Howl Publications‘ Infurno anthology.
A Voice Not Spoken
TAGS: Political, Drama, Violent
When the Predators fail to vote, the Prey take over the country and have their revenge against their long-time rivals.
Status: Available from Thurston Howl Publications‘ Seven Deadly Sins anthology.
By Trial and Conviction
TAGS: Steampunk Swashbuckler
When the dreadnought airship Elysium bombs their capital city, the crew of the Albion seek her out in vengeance, and for a chance to recapture her from her traitorous captain.
Having survived the attack of the Elysium on their capital, Mr. Oot, the Albion’s cabin boy and sword cleanser, recounts how his ship’s crew and captain fought to regain the great battleship and bring the traitorous Warbek the Weasel to justice.
Status: Available in Transmundane Press‘s In The Air anthology
Flight of the Universe
TAGS: Dreampunk, Multiverse
Jacob Houghton has always found himself out-of-place. Not just uncomfortable, but in multiple realities at the same time. As the problems intensify and his reality tears itself apart, he must find a way to undo the chaos before he is responsible for the end of the universe.
Status: Coming soon from Fractured Mirror Publishing’s Mirrormaze Anthology
Is it Really Genocide( if your species was already doomed)?
TAGS: Political, Post Apocalyptic, Modern Sci-fi
With earth destroyed and their spacecraft critically damaged, the leader of the human race must decide whether to risk it all on the slim chance that all the survivors will find sanctuary or make a decision that will damn her, and most of the remaining souls on board.
Status: Available in Scary Dairy Press‘ Terror Politico anthology
Joseph and the Technicolor Fur Coat
TAGS: Anthro, Crop Opera, Drama, M/M clean romance
An aged farmer is invited to reconcile with his eldest son, but will their lifestyles clash, especially when his child admits to loving a scientific hybrid?
Status: Available from Thurston Howl Publications‘ 2017 Cóyotl Award Winning Arcana Anthology
REVIEWS: Fred Patten
Last Ride of the Inferno Train
When hell is filled with the last of humanity, the great inferno train takes the last of the damned to their final places of eternal penance and penalty.
Status: Available in Kyanite Publishing’s 2018 Winter Digest
Review by DMShepard
Mary, Shelley, and the Clockworked Orange Guard
TAGS: Gearpunk, Steampunk, Furry, Anthropomorphic
Targeted
TAGS: Victorian Urban Fantasy, Horror, Action, Revenge , Alt-history
When Lord Batemont, purveyor of fine silks, dealer of rare spices, and inheritor of stolen lands is murdered at his party, Captain Arthur Combe gathers a posse to track down the murderer, unaware that Lord Batemont was only a bonus target for the assassin Lavanya, a member of the elite and mysterious Vish Kanya.
Status: Coming soon from Kyanite Publishing LLC’s FIRST ISSUE of their speculative journal.
The Dead Squad
TAGS: Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Action, First Person
When a young but experienced war journalist gets invited on a mission, she finds herself working alongside soldiers who are, by all rights, already dead as they search for a cure for the disease that has ravaged all life on earth.
Status: Coming soon from Sirens Call Publications First Hand Accounts anthology.
The Preacherman
TAGS: Anthropomorphic, Alt-History, dystopic
In the mid-19th century, the descendants of convicts are forced to labor for both the crown and church. When a young badger kills his best friend in a crime of passion, he must make the decision to flee and live with the guilt, or accept responsibility for his actions and face his fate at the hands of a totalitarian state.
Status: Available from FurPlanet Productions Dystopia anthology.
The Prisoners’ Diary
TAGS: Gothic horror, diary, transformation
A man awakens in a cell, not knowing how he got there nor understanding why he is where he is. All he knows is that the guards are frightened of him, and his only companion across the hall may help his deteriorating sanity.
Status: Coming soon from Kyanite Publishing LLC’s Halloween Issue of their speculative journal.
Such is the Nature of The Change
TAGS: Sci-fi, Western, Post-apocalyptic
In one single day, in one single hour, the world was forever altered in the horror of nuclear Armageddon. Decades later, The Saints, an order of gunslinger priests, are the only source of organized justice across the land as they stand against Blood Robbers, Flesh Takers, and the wealthy slave traders.
While sparing people from the sin of suicide by killing them in mercy’s name, Saint Dismas, a survivor of the day of “The Change” finds evidence of “Purists.” Survivors untouched by nuclear alteration. He intends to bring the children to “Eden”, a sanctuary built by the founding Saints where they hope to rebuild humanity, but as he gets closer to his goal he discovers that his great organization might not be the chaste and blessed system he’s been led to believe in.
Status: Available from
Tooth, Claw, and Fang
TAGS: Anthropomorphic, War, Romance
When a seasoned battle surgeon suddenly finds himself unable to treat the wounded as efficiently as the enemy is at making them, he is forced to deal with the emotions that he has kept buried for so long.
Status: Available from FurPlanet Productions Dogs of War anthology.
