Category: Flash Fiction

Better Drugs For A Better Tomorrow Society thrived on drugs.  Jim thought that was natural–he thrived on drugs himself.  When younger, he drank, and it helped him get through.  Drugs in the processed food he ate also affected him (but he was not sure how, except eventual cancer was probably involved.)  As he aged, Jim […]

How To Relax In A Stressful World Bombs dropped, drug running speedboats blown up, war overseas, at home, troops and fear in the streets.  Costs soared, especially food–just staying alive felt tough.  Millard woke each morning dreading the news, what horrible information the day would bring.  He was an accountant who loved working, losing himself […]

Halloween Halloween was over.  Frederick handed out candy during the rainy, bleak evening.  It was no longer time for ghosts and goblins.  The annual holiday was over.  Now it was time for real life.  But real life was like Halloween.  He handed out psychological candy to family, friends and colleagues.  They all came to him, […]

Team Spirit Arnold was a respected Proctologist and Psychologist.  He told anyone who asked that the professions were related.   One of Arnold’s hobbies was watching sports on TV.  He loved the tension, excitement, the teamwork.  What he did not understand was why teamwork failed to exist in his own life.  At work he was frequently […]

Fred Fred walked the Earth.  Sometimes he drove if he had to, sometimes took a ferry–he walked whenever he could: observing, learning, wandering.  There was much to see, much to know, much to understand.  Fred knew it was good for his soul.  Talking with people, watching animals, living in each environment.  Walking the Earth was […]

Peace? God created Peace but never energized it.  Peace often asked God why She created Peace only to never use it.  God’s reply was always Peace was a good idea but the time was not right.  Peace was discouraged.  Eons passed.  The time was never right.  As 2025 unfolded, Peace again spoke with God.  “You […]

War Everyone agreed it was time for the annual lunch with War.  War was on the move again.  It never stopped, really, but occasionally slowed.  War was born with humanity, gaining power and consciousness from any conflict.  As humanity and civilization grew, so did War, until War was Itself.  War considered itself crucial to humanity’s […]

King Leer [Reader Advisory] King Leer was born Prince Lear but acquired his nickname in his teens.  It fit.  He slipped into being King Leer as easily as his hand into a fine glove, as he saw women: something soft to fit into.  He was not a decent fellow, dominated by male fulfillment and power.  […]

Hamlet Today Hamlet Today Hamlet did not consider himself a ditherer but doing nothing but watch had enabled a scheming idiot to marry Hamlet’s mother, the Queen, and become King, quickly revealing he was a tyrant—seeking petty revenge on opponents, sending troops onto the streets and seas to round up immigrants and kill drug runners.  […]

No Kings Day This year citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against the current administration with a No Kings Day (twice, but these are the times we live in.)  What about next year?  We will certainly have more No Kings Days, and in addition we could have: No Bullying Day No Personal Insults Instead […]

Dorian Gray As President Dorian Gray always wanted it easy.  He was born into wealth, dabbled in real estate and casinos, but often went bankrupt because he enjoyed stiffing contractors, spent too much on gold toilets, and working hard was not easy.  Dorian Gray always wanted it easy.  Dorian decided it was time to make […]

The Church Of Me The Church Of Me The nation was created by Christians fleeing religious persecution by other Christians, founding it not as a Christian nation (they had seen the danger in uniting Church and State.)  However, over hundreds of years the nation evolved, as did its religion, which was a new version of […]

Film Actors We Live With Who Die Film Actors We Live With Who Die Maurice began reading obits of famous people in his twenties.  Then, most died in their late sixties; now, in their early eighties.  The worst were actors he ‘knew’ for decades.  The very worst were actors he first saw as children, who […]

Shutdown Today Arnold was super frustrated by the latest Government shutdown.  Such failures only happened in his country.  The shutdowns came when the parties refused to agree on the yearly Government spending bill.  Civil servants went unpaid, projects postponed, benefits stopped.  Many citizens viewed it as a news item.  It rarely affected them directly.  A […]

Seeking The Nobel Peace Prize The new President really really wanted to be given—to him, win–the Nobel Peace Prize.  He believed it would show the world what a wonderful person he was.  Peace, after all, meant a lot more to people than science and that other stuff.  He realized it was not a sure thing, […]

Porn Nazis After the Nazis invaded a country one of their first acts was to spread pornography.  They knew there was nothing better for them than most of the captured country’s men jerking off at home.  It worked in every country except France (French men were already preoccupied.)  When the nation elected a new President, […]

Civil War The is the story of the collapse of the nation’s house.  The house was built on the ocean shore, on stilts, for the views.  It was meant to last forever.  Yet now the walls were broken and splintered, the roof leaked, the water pipes spurted, the furnace on the fritz.  No one could […]

The New President’s New Halloween The New President’s new Halloween was like no other.  In addition to young trick or treaters, he sent armed troops to major cities—not costumes, the real thing.  The troops had loaded automatic weapons and did not ask for candy (they had their own.)  It was a truly unusual Halloween, unusually […]

Making The Most Of His Life Arnold believed in making the most of his life and wished everyone felt the same.  Life was short and you got only one chance.  Any less than making the most of it was a waste.  He worked hard at his career, steadily if slowly advancing.  He helped his extended […]

Stress Angela’s work was tough.  At work, she managed people in a large corporation, responsible for their screw ups as well their failures.  It was work that ground her down no matter how hard she tried.   She brought the tension home.  Some evenings, everything her partner did was wrong, the place was filthy, the food […]