Flash Fiction

The Lantern

I saw it as I rounded the corner at midnight.
It was doing nothing, and it had no eyes, but it was watching me. Looking down at me.  It knew I was here.

Flash Fiction Insights

A Good Place To Die

“It’s a lovely little place you’ve got here,”
“Ah yes.  So it is,” said his friend, putting his mug down on the little table beside the sofa.
“But something’s wrong though, isn’t it?” asked Tom, detecting a continued air of dissatisfaction.

Flash Fiction Humour

Pete The Magnificent’s Diner

Pete’s Diner was busy today, it had been worth the risk he’d taken starting up it three years ago.  Business was good, but he did need to think of a way to make it more upmarket, to make it a bit more outstanding, so to speak.

Flash Fiction Humour

The Lost World

‘So, it’s about this latest report you’ve sent me,’ said the old man, waving the document in the air between their faces before placing it on the desk in front of him. ‘This world that we apparently forgot about.’

Flash Fiction

Train Between Stations

People thought he was just a cleaner, but appearances can be deceptive, and not everything in this world is always quite the way it seems. He restored the station to pristine condition every day with a few good strokes of his brush… but sometimes he swept up more than just dust.

Flash Fiction

The Travel Wallet

The wind howled, and the rain lashed against my brow with such furore that I thought I might be blown over, right into the teeth of the dark waters that swelled only a few yards away. I pulled my old black coat around me a little tighter and, with considerable effort on my part, turned my face into the wind and made my way towards the lights of the tavern.

Flash Fiction

Eternal Hope

Two figures sat on the sofa in front of a flickering screen.  The smaller one looked down at the remote control in his hand, and moved his finger slowly away from one of the buttons he had been caressing.

Flash Fiction Humour

Crystal Gazing

‘I’d like to return this crystal ball which I bought from this very shop only yesterday. It doesn’t work.’