Flash Fiction

[Emily Spencer]

The baby crawled across the library floor, skirting around a fleet of random books that had fallen from the shelves. I threw my hands up in dismay at the chaos and wondered aloud how I had come to be cursed with such ill-fortune. A storm, a hurricane...what next?!! (48 words)

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans are sent for last week.

Our last words for August are:

book, flew, purple

For example:

The night sky looked purple tonight. I wondered what kind of omen that was ... I'd never seen a purple sky before. I snapped my fingers and the appropriate reference book took itself off the shelf and flew to me. (39 words)

[Emily Spencer]

As the book flew through the air in my general direction, the air bled purple, and midnight blue, mottled currents of the raging storm brewing inside my heart. How had it come to this? Once the best of friends, now the bitterest of enemies. Silently, I left the room. Goodbye. (50 words)

[Silvana Mandeville]

I was scribbling furiously on my book, still annoyed with Gracia who had spread fake news about me. I tore the page I'd scribbled on, formed a ball of paper, then tossed it into the air, and watched as it flew gracefully toward the purple trash bin. [47 words]

[Amy Darvill]

Book, flew. Purple


The woman curled her fingers, purple smoke circling them as she lifted the medical dummy in the corner into the air. With a snap of the wrist, the dummy flew, crashing into the wall opposite. She grinned, clutching the book to her chest. And they said she couldn't do magic. (50 words)

[Lucia Dinapoli]

As she ran her fingers across the forbidden spines, a book, purple in colour, fell from the top shelf landing with a deep thud at her feet. The cracked aging pages flew open without a breeze. She reached down for it; the words begging for her to read. [48 words]

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans have been sent for last week!

Flash Fiction is taking a break now. Book Club continues on in September with Book Trivia Round 3, Septem-bean (posted at the start of the month) and Quick Quotes round Two (which is posted weekly).

Thank you so much for the lovely short stories you all have written. They were great!