This isn’t actually the story I planned to post today. That story, after some revising, ended up too long to be flash fiction. I wrote this story from scratch, tonight, just for you. I hope you like it, and as always, thank you for reading. Time slips past a house in different ways, different when a house is a home than when it lays empty in the middle of an overgrown lot. A home can expect to pass its days one after another in a peaceful kind of slumber. The old yellow house out on Country Road No. 2 hasn’t…
Tag: free fiction
Free Flash Fiction: “A Revised History of Earth”
A Revised History of Earth Sherla was lying on her belly on her bed, one of the two tiny singles in the tiny cabin she shared with one of the research girls that just came on board. “Mattie,” she said without looking up from her nail polish, “you can keep talking if you want but I don’t really care about any of that.” “But the tests are conclusive,” the other woman replied, waving her tablet in the air. “I’ve got it all right here.” “Don’t care,” Sherla repeated. She applied another strip of opaque black polish to a blank nail…
Free Flash Fiction: “Breakfast on the Moon”
Breakfast on the Moon Your AI beeps at you until your eyelids flutter open and your eyes, slowly, adjust to the screen in front of you, projected inside your helmet. “I’m awake,” you mumble. “I’m awake. Stop… making… sound,” you add, struggling a little to find the words. The beeping stops but in its absence, the throbbing in your head actually feels worse. You check whether you can move your limbs, which, yes, are all there, and then scan the readouts for a sign of what’s happened to you. “Armor is at 45%,” you say to yourself. Your AI already…
Free Flash Fiction: “Diplomatic Relations With Angry Rabbits”
#SFWAPro Diplomatic Relations With Angry Rabbits “Sorry to disturb you, Mr. Mayor, but the rabbits are back.” At least Siobhan was kind enough to look sincerely apologetic about it. Evan Mikumba smiled slightly. “Thank you,” he said. “You may send them in.” She nodded and left. Easy for her to feel sorry for me, he thought. She doesn’t have to find a way for us to live together. He shuffled random papers on his table, trying to put the thought out of his head. Until the rabbit problem, his biggest concern was getting the half of his town that voted…
Free Flash Fiction: “A Different League”
Originally posted August 2013, at Akashic Books. The guidelines required a 750-word limit and a distinctly recognizable setting. Felicia’s isn’t downtown anymore, but everywhere else still exists, and looks a lot like this, under a certain light… A Different League by Carrie Cuinn Downtown, Ithaca, NY Two a.m. at The State Diner came with a refill on my half-drunk coffee and an impatient smile on the lips of the waitress who’d been hovering nearby. My appointment was late, but my wallet was empty, so I couldn’t afford to leave. A week of poor sleep, too much caffeine, and more than…