Friday Flash Fiction
  • Home
    • About Friday Flash Fiction
  • 100-Word Stories
  • Longer Stories
  • Poetry
  • Authors
    • A-C
    • D-F
    • G-I
    • J-L
    • M-O
    • P-R
    • S-V
    • W-Z
  • Submissions
    • 100-Word Submissions
    • 500-Word Submissions
    • Poetry Submissions
    • How to complete the Entry Form
    • Writing Good Flash Fiction
    • Contact FFF
    • Appeals/Feedback Request
    • Technical Stuff >
      • Terms & Conditions
      • GDPR Compliance
      • Duotrope

The Dark One Cometh, by Bobby Warner

31/10/2016

 
The Dark One stepped to the edge of the high cliff, smiled into the darkness of the approaching storm and unbuttoned his ebony long coat. Lightning speared at him from the clouds, and gouged chunks of rock from the ground beside him.

The thundering force of the wind blew his coat aside, then flung it into the turbulent sky, and he reached into his scarlet chest and pulled forth his madly beating heart.

“Thank you for being here,” he said to the vortex of the storm, pitching his heart into the open maw of Chaos. “Feast on my heart; absorb the rest of me when I leap into space. It is your time to bring final destruction to all feeble, sinful Mankind!”

​He leapt from the cliff and fell laughing into the churning storm, which greedily accepted him. His being served as a catalyst, instantly and vastly increasing the intensity and magnitude of the storm, which quickly spread inland and out across the seas and oceans until the entire world felt its wrath. The Dark One had come to sacrifice himself to the storm, so that it might grow strong enough to fulfill its purpose, and now his mission was complete.

Living Like This, by Eric Smith

6/10/2016

 
I stood up at the bar with Art. He was a regular. I’d never been in there before; hell, I’d never been in Colorado before. The bar was huge; there must have been a couple hundred people in there—they even had a band. The guy up on the stage sang about all the places he’d had sweethearts—Denver, Cheyenne, Texas. In my head I changed the song’s words to dirty ones.

Art wore a black hat, which really worked for him since he had so many scars where they’d cut the cancer from his face—he looked like a rough customer, evil even. But he was a nice guy and never got in fights as far as I knew. And even though he had a potbelly he was strong as shit. I’d seen him pick up heavy loads at work. He’d be on one end when it took two guys to carry the other end.

Art kept ordering glasses of vodka on the rocks. He drank them in about two minutes apiece. When he finished with a glass he’d slam it on the bar and yell “parched.” His voice carried over all the noise and the barkeep would get him another within a few minutes. I drank mugs of draft beer but way slower than Art drank the shots.

Art grabbed my collar and pulled me back from the bar. I had no idea what was happening until another guy, even taller than Art, stood up next to Art where I’d been . I looked up at him. He had a couple of shots and began talking to Art. I gathered they knew each other but not well. When the new guy went to the john Art told me people called him Big Jim.

Big Jim and Art talked about women, drinking, and their jobs. It sounded as though Jim had just been laid off. Then it got personal. Art told us he was thirty-six—that he’d had a hard life and that he had a German background. Jim said he was thirty-three, that he was German, too, and also had had a hard life. He said he had a bad heart.


I told them I was twenty-two. Big Jim looked down at me for the first time. “You’re twenty-two and you’re living like this?”

“What do you mean?”
​

“Never mind.”

    Longer
    Stories

    Longer Friday Flash Fiction Stories

    Friday Flash Fiction is primarily a site for stories of 100 words or fewer, and our authors are expected to take on that challenge if they possibly can. Most stories of under 150 words can be trimmed and we do not accept submissions of 101-150 words.


    However, in response to demand, the FFF team constructed this forum for significantly longer stories of 151-500 words. Please send submissions for these using the Submissions Page.

    Stories to the 500 word thread will be posted as soon as we can mange.

    Picture

    One little further note. Posting and publishing 500-word stories takes a little time if they need to be formatted, too.
    ​Please note that we tend to post longer flash fiction exactly as we find it – wrong spacing, everything.

    Archives

    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

Picture
Website by Platform 36