An Extract from This Month's Release: Career's End
I've decided to celebrate each release with a series of extracts that run for the month it's released in. This month saw the second edition of 366 Days of Flash Fiction released. Links to the collection can be found at Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/b6MrN0 Career’s End Written on December 12, for the March 19 entry of 366 Days of Flash Fiction, this piece is about choices, dreams, and the price of achieving them. The cameras flashed, the whistles screeched, and the crowd roared. The bright lights and sound combined to turn Kali’s world into a blur of dulled-out colors, and only the feel of her assistant’s hand on her arm kept her upright. It was a relief to make it to the car and close that world away. Even so, Kali just sat in the back seat, and kept her eyes closed, breathing in the silence as the ringing in her ears died away. “Too much?” Jessica asked, and Kali nodded. “You’re going to have to get over it, you know.” It was not a question, just ...