Flash Fiction – ish Friday

Only One Thing Wrong By D.J. Lutz  © December 2011 Little Billy Watson had just arrived home from school when the kitchen phone rang. It was his friend, Sally, and she was quite upset, something about missing Christmas cookies.  Billy slammed the phone down, grabbed his coat and yelled “C’mon, Zinger, someone stole Grandma’s cookies! [...]

The six sentence challenge

So I came across a writing blog called Six Sentences, 6S for short. Writers send in their work, hoping to get posted eventually. The idea is to put together a snippet that is only, yes…six sentences in length. Not as easy as it sounds. Here is my entry – and please, those of you who [...]

The Lone Marine

The sun was setting, the yellowish white stone wall of the church turning a darker shade of gray as the shadows overtook it. The only sounds were the fluttering wings of birds settling into the hedges for the night and the trickling of a spring-fed fountain, built into a retaining wall on a nearby farm. [...]

Message in a Bottle

“Find any more buried treasure today, Gus?”  Velma Boyer had seen her neighbor, Gus Kolb, take his metal detector out every Saturday for two years, barring bad weather, to search the town’s old abandoned Army fort in hopes of finding artifacts. Just about everyone living on the cul-de-sac snickered about “old man Kolb, the treasure [...]

A Bad Morning…

Some people may say this is an understatement, but I really haven’t had a great morning. Oh, sure, it started out just fine, I mean, who could pass up freshly brewed coffee? Not me, that’s for sure. Me and my coffee? We connect every morning and a thousand plagues unto anyone that interferes.  Now here [...]

Good friends, beer and ghosts…oh my!

You tell someone that there are 4,500 stars visible on a clear night and they usually look up and then nod in agreement, not thinking twice about it. I don’t really know how many stars there are, up in the sky. I was just guessing. And unless I had accidentally started a conversation with someone [...]

Cheeseburgers can Kill?

“Bounding Burger Blocks Building – Press Peeved. Crap, that’s not the headline I had planned on…” Wendy folded up the newspaper and stared out the train’s window, watching America fly by at 70 miles an hour.  How had her situation changed so quickly and in such a wrong direction? Yesterday she was an idealistic, determined [...]

Man’s Best Friend?

Here’s a short peice that’s just a bit of fun. With as much crap that is going on these days, a little light-hearted fiction could do wonders for the soul… Man’s Best Friend? Little Billy Watson was very excited about seeing the Grand Canyon. After all, he liked digging holes, especially to look for worms, [...]

Flash Fiction Friday – A gift for parents!

Culture Shock Lowell Rodgers smiled as he sat down to read the evening newspaper. Parenting a teenager was not an easy task for anyone, but it seemed that he and his wife Bev must have done something right. His son Richard had always been a handful, what with all of those school conferences and that [...]

Flash Fiction Friday from the Shenandoah Mtns

No Damn Sense! Officer Lindsey Stuart was almost done with her patrol when the radio cackled yet another domestic violence call. She really disliked those since they typically were the most random, with violence from both sides being the usual common denominator. But since Lindsey was well known for her peacemaking and negotiating skills, she [...]