Flash Fiction Rides Again.

Two weeks ago we (the royal “we”) had our first Flash Fiction release on the blog. It went well. Good feedback, lots of fun to write. So this week we’re doing it again.

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I changed the rules. I simply asked a coworker for three pieces of information: an object, a place, a movie. They gave me handgun, San Francisco, The Matrix.

Forty-one minutes later we had the story. Here are the first three paragraphs. If you’d like to read the whole thing, be a subscriber no later than Wednesday at noon. The email with all of the story will go out only to subscribers on Thursday. Subscription is free, sign up on the right – and please make sure you hit your email and confirm that you wish to subscribe. Unless you reply to my email you will not be getting the fiction starting next week.

Thanks for reading.

Eunice stood her ground. The sounds of ABBA singing Ring Ring filled her head. She knew it was a trick to get her to lose her focus. The men, at least they looked like men, were just at the edge of her vision. They were trying to distract her and make her drop the .357 she held clutched in her left hand.

Fog swirled around her in a gentle embrace. The temperature was lower than she’d anticipated when she’d parked her car at the Presidio Park and walked up to the Golden Gate Bridge. It had to be twenty degrees colder out over the open water of the bay. She felt stupid for not remembering that – but the controllers made her forget things all the time. That seemed to be their job in this corner of the game. Make her do stupid things, hurt her, and make mistakes that called attention to her behavior.

Oh, they were clever. They’d cost her the last job with their plots. Her coworkers had complained to the owners about her conversations with them. How they missed what was going on baffled her at the time. Then it became clear: the controllers didn’t just control her; they were working on her coworkers and turning them against her.

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