Finding the Moment (Flash! Friday: Vol 3 – 51)

Source: Flash! Friday: Vol 3 – 51

Vertigo (Friday Fictioneers)

The room tilted and Siobhan threw out her right arm, fingers closing around the towel bar. She closed her eyes. Bile rose in her throat and her knees buckled. The silver bar and towel, with delicately embroidered flowers, lay next to her. Her cheek rested on the cool tile. A small puddle collected in front of her…

She’ll Never Know (Friday Fictioneers)

She’ll never know. We’ll be out after dark and home before dawn. Alexander had promised. And he’d been right. Night after night, he would come for me. My mother at work and the little ones asleep, I crept out. Into the dark hallway. Down the stairs. Across the bridge. The parties were loud and warm,…

Escaped (but not) Unscathed. (Literary Lion: Bleeding)

“Go!” I whispered, pressing Bea forward and glancing back to see Tommy haul John back into the tunnel. A black flashlight was lying in a puddle. Tommy nodded to me as we ducked under the decaying wood, just before a spray of gunshots rang out. “Hold your fire!” From between the boards I could see…