flash fiction – Page 21

Slow PC

March 4, 2019 LittleFears24 Comments

Brass Ep 40

Copper arrived in the libraries computer room. She flicked the power switch and a dozen computers beeped to life.

Her fingers danced across the keyboard. A printer came to life and began regurgitating paper with ink spread across it.

Copper’s keyboard tapping soundtrack paused. “Oh, no.” Her screen paused, flickered and turned blue.

She squeaked as the PC crashed all the other computers slowed down to watch.

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Olivia’s Tree

March 3, 2019 LittleFears11 Comments

By Layne Ambrose

“Seriously another one?” Olivia says.

“Every day Olivia. It is a graveyard after all. People have to go somewhere,” Rufus says in a deflated tone.

“Well can’t they see that we are running out of space here?” Olivia protests.

Rufus shrugs. “Whatever, I’m not sharing my tree. This is my tree so, everyone can just bugger off,” Olivia exclaims.

“Calm down, no one said that you had too,” Rufus says.

“Good because I’m not. I saw that old lady with her dog eyeing my tree. It is totally not happening.”

Story by Layne Ambrose of Chewing-On-Glass.com. Check out Layne’s blog for more glass being chewed. Thanks for the vignette, Layne!

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Lost Letter

March 1, 2019 LittleFears24 Comments

Brass Ep 39

Copper made her way to the libraries second floor. Bookshelves had collapsed across a number of games tables.

Chess pieces were strewn across the floor. Decks of cards had been scattered in ways that would have made magicians weep. Scrabble boards had been snapped in half, throwing their letters into an alphabet soup over every surface.

Once past the Scrabble boards, she let out a sigh of relief. It was all fun and games until somebody lost an ‘I’.

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Auto Motive

February 28, 2019 LittleFears18 Comments

Brass Ep 38

As copper stripped any salvageable parts from the PC, Iron continued browsing the books.

She found her way into the automotive section. Books lined the shelves with titles relating to cars, motorcycles, tractors and engines. She pulled a book off the shelf titled “A beginners guide to starting combustion engines.”

She turned it over.

Photo by Stanislav Kondratiev on Unsplash. Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Sea Creature

February 27, 2019 LittleFears29 Comments

Fear of Ink (3)

The boat capsized and her limp body plunged into the water.

The only thing she’d felt since the initial sting, aside from creeping paralysis, was a wriggle beneath her skin. Like worms were burrowing through her flesh.

Its tendrils took hold of her body, and she began a gradual descent towards the maw of the beast. She was almost grateful to the sea that filled her lungs. Taking her life before the creature had its meal.

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Scotch Tape

February 27, 2019 LittleFears34 Comments

Brass Ep. 37

They found their way to the library where Copper spotted a lone computer. She pulled out her tools and got to work deconstructing it.

Iron wandered up the aisles of books. “Don’t go too far,” called Copper. Irons claws were nimble enough to open a book, but not sharp enough to turn the pages with accuracy. Tilting her head sideways, she read the book titles.

‘Scotch; The History of Sellotape.’ She debated having a read, but she knew she’d never find the beginning.

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History Class

February 26, 2019 LittleFears8 Comments

Brass Ep. 36

They headed into the stationary room and nudged open the doors to the connected classrooms. Copper walked through the history classroom.

Irons opinion of the school lowered dramatically. Scanning the walls, she noticed a poster with the heading ‘Great Rulers’. She dismissed it as uninformative when saw no mention of the Helix 30cm Shatterproof.

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Even Number

February 25, 2019 LittleFears15 Comments

Brass Ep. 35

“It’s blocked,” grumbled Copper as she put her weight into the door. “OK, we can go around.”

Copper led Iron back down the corridor and into the math classroom. Iron paused and read an equation on the chalkboard. At the top was the word ‘Seven’. Following that was a series of plus and minus numbers. Underneath read the line ‘make seven even.’

Iron clamped her claws around the board rubber and removed the S.

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The Swing

February 24, 2019 LittleFears26 Comments

Simon gulped down a whiskey. Gina stood outside by the swing, pushing little Rachael as though nothing had changed in their lives. He couldn’t look at them. He downed two more shots and lay down on the couch.

There was a rap at the sliding glass door. Not again. Couldn’t they leave him alone? Simon covered his face with a blanket, waiting the sound out. The hanging tendrils soon dragged Gina’s corpse back to the swing, returning to their endless mockery of Simon’s old life.

Story by Alex Buchholz of weirdshitwithalex.blog. Check out his blog for more weird shit, with Alex. Thanks for the tale, Alex!

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Dead Deer

February 22, 2019 LittleFears21 Comments

“Shogmagrathagratiu,” croaked Deer.

“Whatever you say, mate,” replied Lucy.

Deer slumped to the ground, his skin fell from his body. The features of his face slid off piece by piece until just a skull remained.

“Hey, hey,” chuckled Lucy, tugging on an antler, pointing at Deers skull. “No eyed deer!”

“Oh, for god’s sake,” sighed Yuffie. “Now what do we do with him?”

“Chop it up and sell it to passing people?” suggested Lucy. “We could chop off his balls and tell a human they have medicinal purposes.”

“We wouldn’t get much for them,” sighed Yuffie. “Deer testicles are under a buck.”

Deers corpse and pixel art trees are snap-shotted, printed and doodled on with permission of the rather awesome, lum. It’s from a free game, Devil Haunts Me. A free survival horror game by lum. Check em out here: https://lum-scum.itch.io/. You can hit ’em up on Twitter at @uberprawn.

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