Showing posts with label flash fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flash fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Water Hazard (flash fiction)

Every spring Penny began the long trip home to Nova Scotia. But this time she took a detour, thinking revenge. Pollution. Climate change. Feminist outrage. Fins up, she swam onward.

Later no one could explain what a female killer shark sought, far from the Atlantic coast, on Mar-a-Lago's golf course.

Thursday, June 29, 2023

The Last Word (a 50-word biography)

 The Last Word


Pregnant Paris doctor flees Nazis.


Landlady: Someday you speaking English. Then you being a lady.


Crossword puzzles become her English lessons.


Toronto medical school head: Stay home. Be a mother.


Accepted two years later.

"You actually passed. And your English is so good!"

"It should be. I memorized your textbook."