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 The Difficulties of Sleep Written on July 11, 2016, for the March 31 entry of 366 Days of Flash Fiction, this piece was inspired by the theme of Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge for July 1, 2016: Insomnia. The challenge was to incorporate the inability to sleep in a story of 1,000 words or less. I did not expect what I came up with. The nights are long on Idris 94—and none of us can sleep. The nights are full of sound, soft rustling, the snap and crackle of dried leaves, the moaning of the wind—and the moaning of the dead, the screams of the unfortunate living, and the wet, tearing sounds of flesh being eaten. We’d block them out, if we could, but we cannot. They are carried on the wind, like the ...
