Daily Flash Fiction Stories
By David Daniel
He remembered that first time.
“Oh my God!” Lucinda had squealed. “Thank you!”
William blushed when she kissed him. “It’s only glass.” He’d been careful to pitch it between modesty and outright apology.
“It’s as good as a diamond, or a pearl. Better! It’s personal and one of a kind.”
“I know you like beach glass,” he’d said. And, holding hands, off they’d gone, walking into the soft summer darkness of the park.
[Read more…] about Almost Romance Enough for a LifetimeThe school officials sat on one side of a table that was laden with thick files and diet soda. Chelsea sat on the other side, on the edge of panic.
“Walter’s like a walking forest,” said the principal, without passion despite the poetic simile.
“We’re not worried about academics,” said the teacher. “They’re exemplary. He’s one of our fastest readers.”
“But he’s been through a lot,” said the counselor, who wore a brown cardigan, the color of the fallen leaves that Walter taped to his clothes.
We’d like to help, they all said.
[Read more…] about Instructions for Gliding Over IceBy Charlie Rogers
It was right here a second ago.
Socks disappear all the time, often when they’re tumbling out of the dryer.
Elizabeth always joked, “Looks like another one’s run off to join the Navy.”
“Is it argyle? Probably the Marine Corps,” I’d respond. I don’t recall what that meant anymore. I didn’t own any argyle, never did.
So now I have one sock on my foot, the other has gone AWOL. It was right next to me when I was putting on this one.
[Read more…] about We Did a Good ThingI was out on the quad bike this morning, amid the bogs and outcrops, hills and vales of the fens and dales, the cold winter wind whipping my cheeks as the engine scrawled and spluttered. In the low winter sun, the shabby flanks of the sheep seemed camouflaged against the tired landscape, inhabiting, as they are bound to do, the marshy low valleys where the wind is only occasionally funnelled. These winter inspections are a necessary part of life on the moors, that I may gauge the state of the flock and their general demeanour, for an unhappy flock seldom procreates. Sheep get headaches, too.
[Read more…] about The Funnelled WindBy M D Smith IV
Selling the cow’s been difficult, she thought, but we had to have the money. Times are tough.
The Nez Perce Nation pursuing the U.S. Army. Some settlers were casualties as they retreated toward Yellowstone. The Campbell family settled in harm’s way.
Maddie tried to nurse her infant daughter, Dot, at her breast, but the milk was slow to return. The withering garden wasn’t doing well in the hot August heat. Danger was near. The Maybe in a day or two, I’ll have enough again. She smiled down at the fussing infant in her arms.
[Read more…] about Unlike Any Mother’s StoryBy Jeff Harvey
Crazy Bill dropped out of Pearl’s Beauty Academy after the instructor told him that women in this area wouldn’t want someone like him doing their hair. Bill asked her what that meant, and she said, “You know what I mean.”
He went back to sleeping late and watching game shows. Occasionally, he cut and styled hair without a license for money to eat. Kicked out by his parents after he wore one of his momma’s dresses to his senior prom, Bill was homeless for a while. The only place he could find to live was a room in back of a feed store that smelled like a horse farm. He cleaned the store in exchange for the room.
[Read more…] about Crazy Bill