Category: Flash Fiction

It was just an old piece of faded lace, blowing across the Arizona desert like an orphaned tumbleweed. It was nothing, but it was everything,…

“You can’t never outrun The Past, son. It’ll hunt you down like a dog ’til the day you die.” Those had been the final words…

Every old ranch has its secrets, and that went double for a place that had been in one family for more than four generations. Still,…

No matter how abandoned an old mining town might look, there was always at least one holdout who complicated the cleanup job. And,  in Fragile…

The dark outskirts of Devil Hollow were a strange place for a priest to set up shop, and Dillon McCabe was glad to see a…

“What  happened to ol’ Nathan, anyway? Tommy Franks says he went mad and run off into the mountains.” Deputy Bob Staley led Nathan Lamley’s donkey,…

It was a beautiful October morning, and Caleb could feel in the air that it was going to be a warm day. A day for…

It was more money than Freddie had ever seen, but it was just barely enough. It wasn’t his, either, and probably wouldn’t be. Ten of…

“Looks like them vultures are back again.” Tom Dawson pointed his pickax toward the dark swarm over Scorncreek. Jed Hanson shielded his eyes with a…

“Maybe we should start a fire.” Norma Peters’ breath hung in the cold air as she spoke to her husband across the table. Normally, the…