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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #31 – The Bubble.

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Michael

Most of the time Agnes lived in a bubble, so it wasn’t surprising she was off with the fairies a lot of the time. Reality for her was built around a few simple things. Eating and sleeping and what happened … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #29 – Fang and Dango In Pursuit.

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Michael

Image: AAA.com. The world’s most infamous detectives, Fang and Dango were hot on the trail of the equally notorious criminal, Jerkeye Jenkins, thief and general all-round bad guy. Jerkeye had given them the slip on more than one occasion, in … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #27 – A Crumpled Mess

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Michael

The dolls were meant to ease the burden of loneliness. What was she thinking he would ask himself as each evening he’d sit across from them? The gulf between them and himself testament to his feelings about the whole arrangement. … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #23 – A Glow Beside Him.

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Michael

Image: Johannes Plenio@pexels.com. It all came about in the strangest of ways. What started out as a bush walk through country he knew so well ended in tragedy. He remembered tripping on a tree root and then falling. It seemed … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #20 – Halting Time

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Michael

Image: Geralt@pixabay.com. Muriel had a thing about time. She was obsessed by it. Her attraction was best described as a desire to purchase as many time pieces as she could in the mistaken belief that owning so much time might … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #19 – The Cube

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Michael

Image: Andrew Neel@pexels.com. When the knock on the door was answered, they were greeted by a man introducing himself as Mr Minisota, and he was there to show them something that would change their lives forever. By the time they … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #16 – The Goose, the Girl and an Egg.

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Michael

Image: Stine86Engel@pixabay.com. A bird with a woman on board Came flying by We saw, we marvelled Then dismissed it all An illusion said some Figment of your imagination said the learned ones. The next day they flew by again Heads … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #15 – The Last Stop

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Michael

There was a sense of finality about the sign ahead of them. Beyond this point were they stepping off the edge of the world, entering an abyss or just some never-never from which survival was only an option. They contemplated … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #9 – Gran’s Russian Piece.

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Michael

Image: AdnaeInviere at DeviantArt.com. The strange piece with the wind-up mechanism was a curiosity from the past, and strangely no one had seen it operate. Gran explained to us that the coil was over-wound and so it sat, and we … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #5 – Sleep Study

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Michael

My wife of many years was constantly nudging me in the ribs while we slept complaining that my snoring kept her awake. One day she was reading the paper and came across a story about a man who like me … Continue reading →

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