2022 Flash Fiction Challenge Extracts: Streak 2, Days 5-10

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Despite getting sick from the flu shot, and working through a list of outstandings a mile long, I managed to maintain the flash fiction challenge as well. Not sure how, but I got some interesting pieces out of it, and I welcome each one.

Flash Fiction Challenge 2022

Streak 2: Day 5
Streak 1: 17 Days
Flash Piece 39/39
Words: 32
Usually I post the first 10% (rounded down), but this piece is so short, I'll post it all:
  
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Kisha thought the sun shone too brightly, and that the clouds were too far away, but it was not the sun, nor any ordinary cloud, but a flash that ended her world.

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Streak 2: Day 6
Streak 1: 17 Days
Flash Piece 40/40
Words: 117
First 10% (rounded down)
  
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“No one is coming?” Rogers was aghast. “Where did that come...

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Streak 2: Day 7
Streak 1: 17 Days
Flash Piece 41/41
Words: 184
First 10% (rounded down)
  
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“Harder!” Jocelyn shouted. “Goddammit! How can it be any harder?”

It was a question she regretted asking ten...

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Streak 2: Day 8
Streak 1: 17 Days
Flash Piece 42/42
Words: 52
First 10% (rounded down)
  
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Anthea danced with the pixies,

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Streak 2: Day 9
Streak 1: 17 Days
Flash Piece 43/43
Words: 48
First 10% (rounded down)
  
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Helgen took the ship...

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Streak 2: Day 10
Streak 1: 17 Days
Flash Piece 44/44
Words: 690
First 10% (rounded down)
  
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Not much of a welcome, Clayton thought, watching the shuttle pass overhead.

It would have been better if the damned thing had been alone, but it wasn’t. He could see two more beyond it, flying in formation…and he could hear more in the sky he couldn’t see behind his head.

He lay, flat on his back in the grass, exactly where the teleport had dropped him…or rather, five feet...

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To be published in: Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction
 

 
 

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