In this collection of flash fiction and microfiction by Patrick Boey, you’ll discover very short stories that you can read in under one minute.
These flash fiction stories encompass a range of genres and styles, and often stem from a certain writing experiment or prompt, whether that’s to write prose that’s as purple as possible, or to write dialogue only, or craft a memorable short narrative, there’s no limit to flash fiction and microfiction.
Dear Writers, Battle on. The fight is not lost, for there are still words to murder with, still adjectives to regroup, still metaphors that may turn the tide. Your enemies are just passing fancies, impulses that shoot at you briefly but inevitably fall short. You repel them with a shield of schedules…
For her, heaven is a four-legged vessel of relinquished valiance. It is her empyrean tangency of succouring upholstery. A blissful domain. A three-dimensional ode to joy. A nesting home for the weary, weatherworn, and barely fully-fledged person, not quite assimilated to the woes of everyday adult life. Sinking into the comforting crimson caress, she can…