Bailey saw the sign last. It was a lonely, lighted sign alerting all those unfortunate to be traveling on I16 west through Georgia at 3:22 AM that the next exit was 34 miles away. There was no one else on the road. No one.
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Friday Flash: Morning Coffee
It was time for me to answer for all of my indiscretions and I was terrified.
#FridayFlash: Who Are You?
Of Course it had to be raining. It was so cold. The icy rain wasn’t helping. It pelted on my jacket and ran down my selves. Smoke was coming out of the street in different places. I don’t know why. What is under there that makes smoke come from the street. I feel like the…
Flash Fiction: The Mailbox
The death march to bataan otherwise known as the walk to my mailbox. It stares at me when I leave in the morning and when I return at night. I try to put it off for as long as I can but after a week, I get home and envelopes are sticking out every which…
#friday flash : Coming Home
The Bus pulled up to the Greyhound station at one twenty two in the morning. Betty his wife was standing in the corner of the station huddled in the red and white bomber jacket he gave her two years before. He’d been waiting for this moment for so long, it seemed unreal that it was…
#fridayflash Building Blocks
A knock sounded at the door. “Thomas?…Are you okay in there?” It had been over forty five minutes since Thomas locked himself in the hall bathroom. “I’ll be out in a minute Mom.” The ever caring Judith, thought Thomas. Always worrying about her baby boy. Although he was twenty eight, Judith never missed a chance…
#fridayflash Oh What A Nightmare
Mark knew he was dreaming, but he couldn’t wake up. Cold air surrounded Mark as he walked, hunched in his raincoat traveling north on 3rd Avenue. He passed restaurants, clothing stores, a dry cleaner and a shoe repair shop all closed up for the night. Mark was alone. No one else traveled 3rd Avenue at…
The Greatest Question Of Our Time
“Thank you for joining us tonight on a special edition of the V Factor. I am your host Scott Lane. Joining me are two prominent voices in the ‘should we or shouldn’t we’ debate. Should we reveal ourselves to humans or should we continue to live and feed in the shadows. This is one of…
#fridayflash Trying On Life
“Does this make my butt look big?” Asked Lani. Lani had her back to the dressing room mirror as she stuck her butt out and turned around to try and look at her derriere in the mirror. The green stretch pants wrapped her body and she looked at her shape and the fit, pleased with…
Flash Fiction: 8 Minutes
It’s too hot to play outside, thought Anna as she sat on the ground in the backyard of her house. Her Grandmother was busy hanging just washed clothes to dry on the line that went all the way from the house to a tree about 30 feet away. 8 year old Anna bent down to…