Here's a silly story I wrote in response to a microfiction monday prompt last month - the prompt was "paint" and because of other things I was working on at the time, I ended up using some minor knowledge of nautical camouflage for the finale. There are ways I could integrate this history better into … Continue reading Greyish Mauve (flash fiction)
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Wax and Wane (flash fiction)
The shoemaker’s children did not have no shoes – they had the very best of shoes.Not fancy shoes, not made with glass or glitter, not stiletto-heeled or flat canvased, not bearing blinking lights or tiny wheels. Simply perfect shoes. Every half-moon night, the shoemaker created these shoes.Good quality material. Built by experienced, fairly-compensated and still-curious … Continue reading Wax and Wane (flash fiction)
Egg (Microfiction)
It was forty-seven minutes after ten in the evening on a mid-March night when Landrigan pulled up his eye-shade, stared up at the white stuccoed ceiling, and announced - “I know what I am.” His companion of fifteen years four months and ten weeks but who was counting said, “What?” “I’m an egg,” Landrigan said. … Continue reading Egg (Microfiction)
Rabbit (Microfiction)
Rabbit found at the bottom of an empty coal bin, how lucky were you? How did you survive the initial shock? The loudest noise in the world, the world tumbling up and over and around and down around you, into the dark. Then waking, in a cave growing cold, with a bloody stranger whose first … Continue reading Rabbit (Microfiction)
Microfiction Monday – Untitled
Hello. I am continuing to participate in my regional online group's microfiction Monday's. (Mondays?) What happens is our dear leader gives us a theme of the month (which I usually ignore/forget) and a prompt for the week. We're supposed to limit ourselves to under 300 words, but I rarely do that. I am a chronic … Continue reading Microfiction Monday – Untitled
Kilmeny MacMichael 