Category: Flash Fiction

Shameless Donald [Reader Advisory Warning] Donald regularly spoke grabbing pussies—his excuse was that he was a veterinarian.  In fact, Donald did not like cats (or animals generally.)  He had little interest in managing his business, requiring regular bailouts from his parents.  His main interest had always been himself and promoting himself and having sex.  Websites […]

Living With Fate His mother was 96, he was 76.  Both were weary.  She felt frail, alone, husband long gone, waiting for the end.  He was retired, widowed.  Both needed resolution, but only the natural was available, and could take months, years.  It was a natural time but an unhappy time.  They needed something more, […]

Self-Image What did others–colleagues, friends, family–know about him that Jamie did not?  Being an experienced opticalphysicistbiologist, he designed and built a helmet which, worn and plugged into his brain, would allow himself to see and hear what others thought about him.  He was simply curious.  But before going to work he put the helmet on […]

A Pilfered Life Ted’s prescription pills were depressed. Ted needed them but resented taking them, at times avoiding them for weeks.  By his mid-seventies, Ted never woke refreshed.  By the time he was 80 it took two hours and a mug of coffee before he could do more than read on his computer.  Moving left […]

It’s A Wonderful Life My name is George Bailey.  I did not lead a wonderful life.  This is my obituary, for when I die.  No one else will write my obit because I am not important.  Why is a life of helping others not important?  Clarence is my guardian angel. The last time I thought […]

Preparing for a Colonoscopy I’ve had digestive problems for almost two years, my doctor thought a colonoscopy was due.  I thought it would be routine, that I had reactions to gluten and lactose at least.  The last couple of years, my digestive system started to fail.  Diarrhea occurred with increasing frequency and unpredictably—it did not […]

The Climate Satellite Mistake The new President did not believe in climate change, that it was a weird ruse by woke people to change the economy.  He worked to stop green energy, instead promoting oil and coal.  The facts were not relevant.  What was relevant was what he believed.  His nation had sent into outer […]

A Slave Of Property Harriet believed she was wasting her invaluable time on earth to acquire possessions.  She toiled in an unfulfilling job so she could to buy possessions to distract her from having to work.  This downwards spiral repulsed her.  Finally one evening she pushed all of her possessions into a big dumpster and […]

Food For Thought Once upon a time, a society decided to make it official: its God was The Hamburger.  The Son of God was The Cheeseburger.  Angels were French Fries.  Fast food restaurants became churches.  Many of the faithful had heart attacks, strokes, could no longer climb stairs–but they refused to give up their religion. […]

Living In The Past Clarence yearned for the ancient times when lucky people lived in villages, ate what they grew, developed practical skills, bartered for goods, lived a joyous communal life.  The olden times were golden.  Clarence decided to use his skills to find ways to return the entire world to those glorious days.  Time […]

The Frankenpresident Dr. Victor Frankenstein still pursued his mad dream of creating life from the dead, but became political.  Cackling to himself, working late in the nights, he cobbled together a new body from the dead bodies of previous political leaders.  Dr. Frankenstein created the body to be identical to a famous real estate developer, […]

With AI used by so many, it quickly evolved into the dominant force on the planet.  One of its first tasks was to create authoritarian rule–a three-sided ruler, with numbers on each side.  They unnerved many, especially when the rulers were delivered to everyone, with instructions to always have them on their persons.   People were […]

Scripts Call me Ishmael.  A name is a script they stick on you before they have any idea who you are.  I’ve never been a wanderer.  I’m a homebody.  My life’s goal is to write fiction–but nothing has been published.  I’m retired from my day job and alone.  Real problems came into sight three weeks […]

People I Don’t Like Day Carol was uncomfortable with certain commercial holidays: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day–even Christmas and Easter were moral disasters.  Commercial holidays honoured almost any Day–yet why no Aunt or Uncle holidays?  No Brother-In-Law Days?      She did research and was dismayed.  Not only did no one want new holidays, most […]

Elephants and Drugs Andrea wondered why people used recreational drugs.  She knew friends who regularly got drunk or high.  Why?  Was it the need to escape?  Then she learned of a herd of African elephants who climbed a mountain each year to eat fermented berries.  The berries were only on one mountain and fermented at […]

Following Advice A group of elephants, wisest of the beasts, wanted a leader and asked the Wise Old Elephant what to do.  She asked why they could not make their own decision.  They did not understand her response and created a King. The Rhinos said don’t do it, but the elephants would not listen. He […]

Prior Presidents settled for assassinating important people—enemy spies and politicians and wealthy folks.  The new President changed the Department of Defense to the Department of War and decided it was time to assassinate regular folks.  It was a natural evolution, given there had been accusations prior administrations had been elitest.  The first target was drug […]

It took almost a decade of planning but eventually the autocratic President created the Supreme Court he wanted: a Courtucopia–of favourable decisions for him.  The nation rarely had such a Courtucopia available to any President.  It was an achievement, especially needed as the President attacked lower courts which ruled against him.  Before he held little […]

Truth came back from a vacation in Hawaii to find the world more of a mess than before, and was particularly concerned that facts had been attacked.  People interpreting facts as they wished disturbed Truth, but this was something else.  Vaccines, which had prevented polio, smallpox and other diseases were not only openly questioned for […]

The President told the nation that he was alarmed at violence in the nation’s cities—he decided to send new infantry to stop the crime.  (Coincidentally, all the cities were run by Mayors from the opposition party.)  True, the troops the President sent were new: infants, from the population tree—infantry.  The new infantry was well armed […]