Category: Flash Fiction

The danger in loving anyone or anything is that you grant it the power to destroy you as it pleases. Life had bludgeoned Hacker’s heart…

The fire was dying, and the cold night waited just beyond the rocky shadows. It would wrap its icy arms around Derek if he didn’t…

If there was one thing that Ned-Ray Jackson loved more than booze, it was women. And if there was one thing he loved more than…

“Where have you been, Emma? I’ve been waiting here a long time.” Sam gripped his wife’s hand. “I’m here now, Sam.” Emma gazed into Sam’s…

The floorboards were cold under Caleb’s bare feet. He rubbed the back of one hand across both eyes and set his shotgun against the doorframe.…

Most folks in the Custis family had lived their whole lives in the shadow of the old oak tree. Children swung from its branches, sisters…

“You better hope there’s a phone in this town, Ellen.” Frankie kicked the jack handle, and it skittered underneath the car. Even from a hundred…

It should have been a quiet early Monday morning in Swiftbend. Maddie had made the walk from the hostelry to the diner a thousand times…

“There’s only room for one sheriff in this town,” James Skelton said as he stepped through the doorway and clomped a heavy boot into the…

The barren branches clawed at Temper’s back like an angry bobcat, and the cold November wind stabbed his lungs like knives. But with a gentle…