Length: Flash Fiction

Sleep, Interrupted

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Scientists called it “auditory exclusion.” Aubrey Johnson would discover that later when she began obsessively researching. It started with Google “why wasn’t the gunshot loud” and ended with a thirty-nine-page research paper by Pilson, Myers, et al. But all of that would come later, after she dealt with the now. Now was limited by “visual … Read more

525,600 Dollars

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When given an inch, I consider it rude not to take the entire mile. So, when my grenade lady offered a BOGO, I decided it was time to stock up. She normally retailed them at $300—her wholesaler was an African warlord’s angry wife, or so she claimed. But TODAY ONLY!, your average purchaser of grenades … Read more